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Guang'an

Syllables: Guang·an

Guang'an proper noun: a prefecture-level city of Sichuan, China.

Proper noun

Guang'an

  1. A prefecture-level city of Sichuan, China.
    • A native of Kuangan, Szechwan, Yang Sen was born into a scholarly family of landowners.[1971, “Yang Sen [楊森]”, in Biographical Dictionary of Republican China, volume IV, Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 7, column 2
    • TENG HSIAO-PING was born in Hsieh-hsing village, Kuang-an county, some 100 km. from Chungking, Szechwan province in 1904.[1978, Chi Hsin (research group), Teng Hsiao-ping: A Political Biography, Hong Kong: Cosmos Books, →OCLC, page 3

Forms of Guang'an

alternative formKuang-an

Origin of Guang'an

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 廣安 /广安 (Guǎng'ān).

Questions about Guang'an

What does Guang'an mean?
Guang'an means a prefecture-level city of Sichuan, China.
What part of speech is Guang'an?
Guang'an is a proper noun.

Words near Guang'an in the dictionary

  1. Guandiques
  2. Guandong
  3. guanethidine
  4. guanethidines
  5. guanfacine
  6. Guang'an
  7. Guangan
  8. Guangchang
  9. Guangdong
  10. Guangfeng
  11. Guanghua

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