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Gueiren

Syllables: Guei·ren

Gueiren proper noun: a rural township in Tainan, Taiwan.

gueiren: a rural township in Tainan, Taiwan
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Proper noun

Gueiren

  1. A rural township in Tainan, Taiwan.
    • All the assessments of Green Buildings depend on the evidences of scientific experiment. Therefore the National Building Performance Laboratory located in Gueiren, Tainan was set up by Architecture and Building Research Institute, Ministry of the Interior for the vernacular scientific experiments...2006, 有綠建築真好 [Good to be Green: Green Building Promotion Policy in Taiwan], Taipei: Architecture & Building Research Institute Ministry of the Interior, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 101
    • Two died in Tainan's Gueiren District, including a woman who was hit by a fallen^([sic – meaning falling]) water tower.2016 February 5, Jillian Sederholm, Phil Helsel, “Taiwan Earthquake: More Than 150 Missing After Deadly 6.4-Magnitude Temblor”, in NBC News, archived from the original on 07 Feb 2016

Forms of Gueiren

alternative formKueijen
alternative formKuei-jen
alternative Hanyu-PinyinGuiren

Origin of Gueiren

From the Tongyong Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 歸仁 (Gueirén).

Questions about Gueiren

What does Gueiren mean?
Gueiren means a rural township in Tainan, Taiwan.
What part of speech is Gueiren?
Gueiren is a proper noun.

Words near Gueiren in the dictionary

  1. Guediguian
  2. gueedman
  3. Guehi
  4. Guehis
  5. Gueijhou
  6. Gueiren
  7. Gueizhou
  8. guejarite
  9. Guel
  10. guelaguetza
  11. guelaguetzas

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