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Jiang'an

Syllables: Jiang·an/d͡ʒɑŋ.ɑn/

Jiang'an proper noun: a county of Yibin, Sichuan, China.

Proper noun (1)

Jiang'an

  1. A county of Yibin, Sichuan, China.
    • The production headquarters of the preparatory group for the Ipin Special District revolutionary committee has sent six propaganda teams of cadres of the agricultural and water conservation offices of the special district into the rural areas to grasp spring farming. The teams solve problems...[1968 April 10 [1968 April 9], “Szechwan Spring Farming”, in Daily Report: Communist China, number 71, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Chengtu Szechwan Provincial, translation of...
    • The explosion erupted in an industrial park in Jiangan County, Sichuan Province, at about 6:30 p.m. on Thursday,[…][2018 July 13, Chris Buckley, “Chinese Chemical Plant Explosion Kills at Least 19”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 13 Jul 2018, Asia Pacific

Proper noun (2)

Jiang'an

  1. A district of Wuhan, Hubei, China, part of Hankou.
    • The General Trade Union of the Peking-Hankow Railroad which organized the strike had its headquarters at the Chiangan Station in Hankow. On February 7, the reactionaries massacred the workers at the station. A memorial hall now stands on the spot. Visitors are invariably moved by the words which...[1974 April, “Wuhan—A City of Revolutionary Tradition”, in China Reconstructs, volume XXIII, number 4, Peking, →OCLC, page 32, column 2
    • On February 7th, Wu Peifu put a savage end to the strike. The most serious conflicts were concentrated in Zhengzhou, Jiang'an in Hubei and Changxindian in Beijing.1983, Yu-Chien Kuan, Petra Häring-Kuan, Magnificent China: A Guide to Its Cultural Treasures [中國文化及名勝指南], 1st American edition, San Francisco: China Books & Periodicals, Inc, published 1987, →ISBN...

Forms of Jiang'an

alternative formChiang-an

Origin of Jiang'an

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 江安 (Jiāng'ān).

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 江岸 (Jiāng'àn).

Questions about Jiang'an

What does Jiang'an mean?
Jiang'an means a county of Yibin, Sichuan, China.
What part of speech is Jiang'an?
Jiang'an is a proper noun.
How do you pronounce Jiang'an?
Jiang'an is pronounced /d͡ʒɑŋ.ɑn/.

Words near Jiang'an in the dictionary

  1. Jiandu
  2. Jiang
  3. jiang hu
  4. Jiang Su
  5. Jiang Xi
  6. Jiang'an
  7. Jiangbei
  8. Jiangdong
  9. Jianghan
  10. Jiangjin
  11. jiangjun

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