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Hunyuan

Syllables: Hun·yuan

Hunyuan proper noun: a county of Datong, Shanxi, China.

Proper noun

Hunyuan

  1. A county of Datong, Shanxi, China.
    • To help the people this spring, Tls. 20,000 have been set apart by the government, and 14,000 piculs of grain taken from Hunyuan and other places.1894 [1893 April 20], “Relief Measures in Shansi”, in Translation of the Peking Gazette for 1893, Shanghai, →OCLC, page 50, column 2
    • Hunyuan at the foot of Heng Shan is a pleasant place to stay over for a while in.1966 April, Rewi Alley, “Some Ancient Sites in Yenpei”, in Eastern Horizon, volume V, number 4, Hong Kong: Eastern Horizon Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 24, column 1

Examples of Hunyuan in a sentence

  • By contrast, in Hunyuan County the rate was under 2 per 100,000.1975 June 17, Walter Sullivan, “CHINA STUDY LINKS CANCER TO REGION”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 05...
  • Xuankong, or Suspended Temple, is situated 5 kilometers south of the Hunyuan County seat in Shanxi Province.2007, Shunxun Nan, Beverly Foit-Albert, China's Sacred Sites, Honesdale, PA: Himalayan Institute Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 96:

Forms of Hunyuan

alternative formHun-yüan

Origin of Hunyuan

From Mandarin 渾源 /浑源 (Húnyuán).

Questions about Hunyuan

What does Hunyuan mean?
Hunyuan means a county of Datong, Shanxi, China.
How do you use Hunyuan in a sentence?
By contrast, in Hunyuan County the rate was under 2 per 100,000.
What part of speech is Hunyuan?
Hunyuan is a proper noun.

Words near Hunyuan in the dictionary

  1. hunyacks
  2. hunyak
  3. hunyaks
  4. hunyok
  5. hunyoks
  6. Hunyuan
  7. Hunza
  8. Hunza water
  9. Hunza-Nagar District
  10. Hunzib
  11. Hunziker

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