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Han-ch'uan

Han-ch'uan is the alternative form of Hanchuan.

Meaning of Hanchuan

Proper noun

Hanchuan

  1. A county-level city of Xiaogan, Hubei, China.
    • Hanchuan is a good example of an outstation in the China Mission. This town is in the central point of a large country district. Around it have gradually been opened preaching points in several villages. In Hanchuan a native clergyman resides, while in the more important neighboring village...1913, Arthur R. Gray, Arthur M. Sherman, The Story of the Church in China, New York: Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society, →OCLC, page 207

Origin of Han-ch'uan

From Mandarin 漢川 /汉川 (Hànchuān) Wade–Giles romanization: Han⁴-chʻuan¹.

Questions about Han-ch'uan

What is Han-ch'uan the alternative form of?
Han-ch'uan is the alternative form of Hanchuan.

Words near Han-ch'uan in the dictionary

  1. Han'dahaa
  2. Han'daidhoo
  3. Han'dhebalanerehaa
  4. han't
  5. Han-ch'eng
  6. Han-ch'uan
  7. Han-chung
  8. han-geul
  9. Han-k'ou
  10. Han-tan
  11. Han-yang

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Han-ch'uan (page history and authors); Hanchuan (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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