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Hei-lung-chiang

Hei-lung-chiang is the alternative form of Heilongjiang.

Meaning of Heilongjiang

Proper noun

Heilongjiang

  1. A province in northeastern China. Capital: Harbin.
    • Zhang Zuo-lin (1873-1928), a former bandit chief who joined the army, was appointed governor of Moukden by Yuan Shi-kai in exchange for services rendered. Using political intrigue and military pressure, he got Heilongjiang (1917) and Jilin (1919) under his control, thus becoming master of the three...1977, Jean Chesneaux, Françoise Le Barbier, Marie-Claire Bergère, “The Republic of the Warlords: 1916–1919”, in Paul Auster, Lydia Davis, transl., China from the 1911 Revolution to Liberation...

Origin of Hei-lung-chiang

From Mandarin 黑龍江 /黑龙江 (Hēilóngjiāng) Wade–Giles romanization: Hei¹-lung²-chiang¹.

Questions about Hei-lung-chiang

What is Hei-lung-chiang the alternative form of?
Hei-lung-chiang is the alternative form of Heilongjiang.

Words near Hei-lung-chiang in the dictionary

  1. hehs
  2. hei
  3. Hei Hei
  4. hei hei salt
  5. Hei-ho
  6. Hei-lung-chiang
  7. hei-tiki
  8. hei-tikis
  9. Heian
  10. heiau
  11. heiaus

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Hei-lung-chiang (page history and authors); Heilongjiang (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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