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Huguan

Syllables: Hu·guan

Huguan proper noun: a county of Changzhi, Shanxi, China.

Proper noun

Huguan

  1. A county of Changzhi, Shanxi, China.
    • THE dense forests and deep ravines of the Taihang Moutnaisn once made southeastern Shanxi province one of China's more backward areas in transportation.[...]A commune in Huguan county once went in for collecting mountain products such as fruit and medicinal herbs, in the hope that they could be got...1982 September, Haiqing Zhang, “Better Transport Livens Up a Mountain Area”, in China Reconstructs, volume XXI, number 9, →OCLC, page 43
    • When I was eighteen I obtained Master Zhang Kongzhao’s Hand Combat Classic (Quan jing), which he compiled while serving under my clan’s remote great-uncle in Huguan County (in Southeastern Shanxi, near Henan’s border).2008, Meir Shahar, “Hand Combat”, in The Shaolin Monastery: History, Religion, and the Chinese Martial Arts, Honolulu: University of Hawaiʻi Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 125

Forms of Huguan

alternative formHu-kuan
alternative formHukuan

Origin of Huguan

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 壺關 /壶关 (Húguān).

Questions about Huguan

What does Huguan mean?
Huguan means a county of Changzhi, Shanxi, China.
What part of speech is Huguan?
Huguan is a proper noun.

Words near Huguan in the dictionary

  1. hugs and kisses
  2. hugs it out
  3. hugs of death
  4. hugs oneself
  5. hugsome
  6. Huguan
  7. Huguang
  8. Huguely
  9. Huguenot
  10. Huguenotic
  11. Huguenotism

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