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Huangchuan

Syllables: Huang·chuan

Huangchuan proper noun: a county of Xinyang, Henan, China.

Proper noun

Huangchuan

  1. A county of Xinyang, Henan, China.
    • On February 23, General Chang Fang, Pacification Commissioner, for the special district of South Honan proceeded to Huangchuan to direct his troops in the suppression of the bandits.1932 March 15 [1932 February 27], “Honan People in Dire Distress”, in North-China Herald, volume CLXXXII, number 3371, Shanghai, →OCLC, page 401, column 2
    • Rev. Bly, of the United Lutheran Mission at Huangchuan, Honan, states that probably all of the important leaders in the Honan-Anhui-Hupeh Soviet organization are graduates of universities and colleges, at least one being a returned student from France; some of these were associated with the Hankow...1968, O. Edmund Clubb, “The Chinese Soviets”, in Communism in China, as Reported from Hankow in 1932, Columbia University Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 85

Forms of Huangchuan

alternative formHuang-ch'uan

Origin of Huangchuan

From Mandarin 潢川 (Huángchuān).

Questions about Huangchuan

What does Huangchuan mean?
Huangchuan means a county of Xinyang, Henan, China.
What part of speech is Huangchuan?
Huangchuan is a proper noun.

Words near Huangchuan in the dictionary

  1. Huang-pei
  2. Huang-shan
  3. Huang-shih
  4. huangana
  5. Huangchi
  6. Huangchuan
  7. Huanggang
  8. Huanggu
  9. Huanghe
  10. huanghoite
  11. Huanghua

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