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Leshan

Syllables: Le·shan

Leshan proper noun: a prefecture-level city of Sichuan, China.

Proper noun

Leshan

  1. A prefecture-level city of Sichuan, China.
    • Actually we would spend the first year or so in the smaller town of Leshan, a hundred miles south of Chengtu, learning the Szechuan dialect and the culture of the local people.2001, Richard Webster, Seize the Baton, Pasadena, CA: William Carey Publishers, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 15
    • The outbreak, found in Leshan, Sichuan province, on a truck transporting 111 pigs from other provinces, has killed 7 of the herd, according to a statement published on the website of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs.2020 March 12, “China finds new African swine fever case in pigs transported to Sichuan province”, in Reuters, archived from the original on 15 May 2022, Health

Forms of Leshan

alternative formLe-shan

Origin of Leshan

From Mandarin 樂山 /乐山 (Lèshān).

Words that rhyme with Leshan

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Questions about Leshan

What does Leshan mean?
Leshan means a prefecture-level city of Sichuan, China.
What part of speech is Leshan?
Leshan is a proper noun.

Words near Leshan in the dictionary

  1. Lesesne
  2. Lesesnes
  3. lesfic
  4. Lesghian
  5. Lesghians
  6. Leshan
  7. Leshchenko
  8. Lesher
  9. Leshers
  10. leshies
  11. leshy

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