Kuitun
Syllables: Kui·tun
Kuitun proper noun: synonym of Kuytun: the Mandarin Chinese-derived name.
Proper noun
Kuitun
- Synonym of Kuytun: the Mandarin Chinese-derived name.
- Another unit mentioning Kazaks specifically is the Seventh Agricultural Division, based at Kuitun, the city directly under the prefectural administration. This division had a total of 193,688 members in 1989, of which minorities were 3.55 percent of 6,876 people.1998, Linda Benson, Ingvar Svanberg, China's Last Nomads, M. E. Sharpe, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 154
- Studies on the 102 water wells containing high levels of fluoride and arsenic in the Kuitun area indicated that the high content was associated with the environment. Drinking the water for a long period of time may be the cause of fluorosis and arsenism seen in the local population.2006, Michael I. Greenberg, “Chemical Events”, in Encyclopedia of Terrorist, Natural, and Man-Made Disasters, Jones and Bartlett Publishers, sourced from Wang G, Xiao B, Huang Y. Epidemiological...
- Synonyms:
- Kuytun
Synonyms of Kuitun
Origin of Kuitun
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 奎屯 (Kuítún).
Questions about Kuitun
- What does Kuitun mean?
- Kuitun means synonym of Kuytun: the Mandarin Chinese-derived name.
- What part of speech is Kuitun?
- Kuitun is a proper noun.
Words near Kuitun in the dictionary
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