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Dianjiang

Syllables: Dian·jiang

Dianjiang proper noun: a county of Chongqing, China.

Proper noun

Dianjiang

  1. A county of Chongqing, China.
    • State media said the blast occurred Thursday in Dianjiang, a county in the Chongqing region, killing one worker. Schools were closed and about 6,000 people were evacuated.2005 November 27, “Harbin prepares to turn the taps back on”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 27 Nov 2022, Asia Pacific
    • In Dianjiang county, Sichuan, a team of eleven people went around torching hundreds of straw huts. 'Destroy Straw Huts in an Evening, Erect Residential Areas in Three Days, Build Communism in a Hundred Days' was the leading slogan.2011, Frank Dikötter, Mao's Great Famine, Bloomsbury, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 53

Forms of Dianjiang

alternative formTien-chiang
alternative formTienchiang

Origin of Dianjiang

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 墊江 /垫江 (Diànjiāng).

Questions about Dianjiang

What does Dianjiang mean?
Dianjiang means a county of Chongqing, China.
What part of speech is Dianjiang?
Dianjiang is a proper noun.

Words near Dianjiang in the dictionary

  1. dianions
  2. dianisidine
  3. dianisyldiethynylsilane
  4. dianite
  5. dianium
  6. Dianjiang
  7. Dianjun
  8. Diann
  9. Dianna
  10. Dianne
  11. dianodal

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