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K'un-ming

K'un-ming is the alternative form of Kunming.

Meaning of Kunming

Proper noun

Kunming

  1. A prefecture-level city, the provincial capital of Yunnan, in southwestern China.
    • The Minister of Commerce and Industry is pushing forward proposals for the development of mining, and has placed before the Cabinet a scheme for the division of the country into eight mining districts to be controlled by the Mining Supervision Bureau.[…]The fifth division will be Shensi, Kansu, and...1914 January, “China's Mining Districts”, in The Far Eastern Review [遠東時報], volume X, number 8, Shanghai; Manila, →OCLC, page 311, column 2

Origin of K'un-ming

From Mandarin 昆明 (Kūnmíng), Wade–Giles romanization: Kʻun¹-ming².

Words formed from K'un-ming

Questions about K'un-ming

What is K'un-ming the alternative form of?
K'un-ming is the alternative form of Kunming.

Words near K'un-ming in the dictionary

  1. K'taka
  2. k'tiv
  3. K'u-ch'e
  4. K'u-mi-shih
  5. K'un-lun
  6. K'un-ming
  7. K'un-ming Lake
  8. K'un-shan
  9. K'ung-tzu
  10. K'ómoks
  11. K*ling

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Adapted from Wiktionary: K'un-ming (page history and authors); Kunming (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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