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Fuling

Syllables: Fu·ling

Fuling proper noun: a district of Chongqing, China.

Proper noun

Fuling

  1. A district of Chongqing, China.
    • In 1097 his teachings were prohibited, his land was confiscated, and he was banished to Fu-chou Prefecture (modern Fu-ling County in Szechuan).[1967, “Introduction”, in Wing-tsit Chan, transl., Reflections on Things at Hand: The Neo-Confucian Anthology (UNESCO Collection of Representative Works Chinese Series), New York: Columbia University...
    • Carved stone inscriptions at Fuling, Szechuan, record low water levels in 72 different years beginning with A.D. 764.1976 August, Nai Hsia, “New Archaeological Finds Enrich Study of Early Science”, in China Reconstructs, China Welfare Institute, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 36, column 3

Examples of Fuling in a sentence

  • Pictures of fish carved on stone and inscriptions recording the conditions of the Yangtze during drought years were found by archaeologists on White Crane Ridge in Fuling county of Szechwan province.1977 August, L. Y. K., “Archaeology and Yangtze Development Scheme”, in Eastern Horizon, volume XVI, number 8, Hong Kong: Eastern Horizon...
  • I CAME TO FULING on the slow boat downstream from Chongqing.2001, Peter Hessler, River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze, London: John Murray, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 3:
  • “All we knew was the code name 816,” said Li Tingyong, a local resident and later head of the Fuling tourism bureau, in a 2010 television program about the 816 plant.2017 January 24, Amy Qin, “A Chinese Nuclear Site, Hidden in a Mountain, Is Reborn as a Tourist Draw”, in The New York Times (Asia Pacific...

Forms of Fuling

alternative formFu-ling

Origin of Fuling

From the Mandarin 涪陵 (Fúlíng).

Questions about Fuling

What does Fuling mean?
Fuling means a district of Chongqing, China.
How do you use Fuling in a sentence?
Pictures of fish carved on stone and inscriptions recording the conditions of the Yangtze during drought years were found by archaeologists on White Crane Ridge in Fuling county of Szechwan province.
What part of speech is Fuling?
Fuling is a proper noun.

Words near Fuling in the dictionary

  1. fuliginously
  2. fuligorubin
  3. fuliguline
  4. fulimart
  5. fulimarts
  6. Fuling
  7. Fulk
  8. Fulkerson
  9. Fulks
  10. Fulkses
  11. full

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