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Fu'an

Syllables: Fu·an/ˈfuˌɑn/

Fu'an proper noun: a county-level city of Ningde, Fujian, China, formerly a county.

Proper noun

Fu'an

  1. A county-level city of Ningde, Fujian, China, formerly a county.
    • Residents of a Fujian province city smashed an ambulance and overturned three police vans after a car crash over the weekend, as yet another relatively minor incidents resulted in public unrest on the mainland.
      The riot in Fuan city appears to have started on Saturday night after a man driving...[2012 November 19, Mandy Zuo, “Anger over crash response in Fuan city sparks riot against police”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 28 Nov 2012, China
    • When I first arrived in Ningde, I went to Tanyang Village, which has been working in partnership with the Ethnic Affairs Commission of Fu’an County. People in the village have managed to lift themselves out of poverty by planting Kyoho grapes. In 1988, their per capita income reached 700 yuan. This...2016 [1989 June], Xi Jinping, “Strengthening the Great Unity of All Ethnic Groups- Reflections on Promoting the Common Prosperity of Ethnic Minorities”, in Up and Out of Poverty: Selected Speeches in...
    Synonyms:
    Fogan

Synonyms of Fu'an

Origin of Fu'an

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 福安 (Fú'ān).

Questions about Fu'an

What does Fu'an mean?
Fu'an means a county-level city of Ningde, Fujian, China, formerly a county.
What part of speech is Fu'an?
Fu'an is a proper noun.
How do you pronounce Fu'an?
Fu'an is pronounced /ˈfuˌɑn/.

Words near Fu'an in the dictionary

  1. Fu Xi
  2. fu$k
  3. fu$ked
  4. fu$king
  5. fu$ks
  6. Fu'an
  7. fu'ivla
  8. fu*k
  9. fu*ked
  10. fu*king
  11. fu*ks

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