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Hetian

Syllables: He·tian

Hetian proper noun: synonym of Hotan: the Mandarin Chinese-derived name.

Proper noun

Hetian

  1. Synonym of Hotan: the Mandarin Chinese-derived name.
    • Police arrested seven members of an East Turkestan separatist organization in Hetian prefecture in the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region, according an to August 30 article in the Hong Kong daily Wen Wei Po.2005 September 7, “Uighur Separatists Arrested in Xinjiang's Hetian Prefecture”, in Congressional-Executive Commission on China, archived from the original on 19 Sep 2014
    Synonyms:
    Hotan

Synonyms of Hetian

Forms of Hetian

alternative formHotien
alternative formHo-tien
alternative formHo-t'ien

Origin of Hetian

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 和田 (Hétián).

Questions about Hetian

What does Hetian mean?
Hetian means synonym of Hotan: the Mandarin Chinese-derived name.
What part of speech is Hetian?
Hetian is a proper noun.

Words near Hetian in the dictionary

  1. Hethoumid
  2. Hethoumids
  3. heths
  4. Hethumid
  5. Hethumids
  6. Hetian
  7. Hetlor
  8. Hetlors
  9. hetman
  10. hetmanate
  11. hetmanates

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