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I-lan

I-lan is the alternative form of Yilan.

Meaning of Yilan

Proper noun (1)

Yilan

  1. A county of Taiwan.
    • Those who know Formosa will have heard of a large rice-producing place called Kapsulan. This place, known officially as Komalan-t'ing was changed in January 1878 into Yilan-hsien (宜蘭縣), by which name it is now known.[1880 February 20, “Tamsui Trade Report for the Year 1879”, in Reports on Trade at the Treaty Ports for the Year 1879, Shanghai, page 181
  2. A city in Yilan County, Taiwan.
    • From 1920 to 1940, the Taiwanese population of the nine major cities (excluding Hualien and Yilan¹³) increased from 365 thousand to 808 thousand.1954, George W. Barclay, A Report on Taiwan's Population to the Joint Commission on Rural Reconstruction, Princeton, N.J., page 66
    Synonyms:
    ILA

Proper noun (2)

Yilan

  1. A county of Harbin, Heilongjiang, China.
    • Tens of thousands of peasants in Tulungshan of Ilan county started large-scale riots, and within ten days killed or injured three thousand Japanese soldiers together with their commanders.[1977 December, “Victory Over the Fourth 'Encirclement and Suppression Campaigns'”, in Eastern Horizon, volume XVI, number 12, Hong Kong: Eastern Horizon Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 39

Origin of I-lan

From the Wade–Giles romanization of the Mandarin 宜蘭 (I²-lan²).

From the Wade–Giles romanization of the Mandarin 依蘭 (I¹-lan²).

Questions about I-lan

What is I-lan the alternative form of?
I-lan is the alternative form of Yilan.

Words near I-lan in the dictionary

  1. I-frames
  2. I-HAWK
  3. I-HAWKs
  4. I-hood
  5. I-Kiribati
  6. I-lan
  7. I-language
  8. I-ling
  9. i-mutation
  10. I-ness
  11. I-nesses

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: I-lan (page history and authors); Yilan (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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