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Li-shui

Li-shui is the alternative form of Lishui.

Meaning of Lishui

Proper noun

Lishui

  1. A prefecture-level city of Zhejiang, China.
    • In a United Press despatch appearing in the Toronto papers about the middle of February it was stated that the Japanese had bombed an airdrome in Lishui, Chekiang, the headquarters of many Canadian Catholic missionaries. Apart from that despatch, no intimation has come to us at the seminary that...1938 March, “News from China”, in China Magazine, volume XIX, number 3, page 40

Origin of Li-shui

From Mandarin 麗水 /丽水 Wade–Giles romanization: Li²-shui³.

Questions about Li-shui

What is Li-shui the alternative form of?
Li-shui is the alternative form of Lishui.

Words near Li-shui in the dictionary

  1. Li-ion
  2. Li-Lo
  3. Li-sanism
  4. Li-sanist
  5. Li-sanists
  6. Li-shui
  7. LIA
  8. Liab.
  9. Liabeuf
  10. liabilities
  11. liability

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