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Lianjiang

Syllables: Lian·jiang

Lianjiang proper noun: a county of Fuzhou, Fujian, People's Republic of China. Also the alternative form of Lienchiang.

Proper noun (1)

Lianjiang

  1. A county of Fuzhou, Fujian, People's Republic of China.
    • In Lianjiang, for example, teams of women apparently used collective funds to organize "large-scale play companies" and buy "ancient-style opera costumes. They have even taken young people to study acting. Some teams, in order to maintain play companies, have even asked counter-revolutionaries to...1982, William G. Rosenberg, Marilyn B. Young, Transforming Russia and China, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 293
    • When a fishing boat of Huangqi township of Fujian's Lianjiang county, which was engaged in nongovernmental trade, was having a transaction with a Matzu trader near the waters of Matzu island on the afternoon of 23 April, the troops garrisoned in Matzu opened fire at them, killing one and injuring...1995 May 2 [1995 April 28], Zhou Xiang (0719 5046), “Matzu Troops Fire at Fishermen, Killing One”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China, numbers 95-084, Foreign Broadcast Information Service...

Proper noun (2)

Lianjiang

  1. A county-level city of Zhanjiang, Guangdong, China.
    • The reserve project, located in Lianjiang county of Zhanjiang city is expected to start operating in early 2018, the sources said, nearly two years behind an earlier timeline estimated by market analysts.2017 March 2, Chen Aizhu, “Sinopec to start operating Zhanjiang commercial oil tanks; SPR site delayed -sources”, in Christian Schmollinger, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 02 Mar...

Also used as

Lianjiang is also the alternative form of Lienchiang.

Examples of Lianjiang in a sentence

  • In Lianjiang, for example, teams of women apparently used collective funds to organize "large-scale play companies" and buy "ancient-style opera costumes.1982, William G. Rosenberg, Marilyn B. Young, Transforming Russia and China, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 293:
  • In a small store in Tingjiang, across the Min River in Lianjiang County, questions about smuggling people into America prompted a lively discussion.2003 September 7, David W. Chen, “For Many Chinese, America's Allure Is Fading”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the...
  • He was the only member of his family still in Lianjiang.2008, Sheldon X. Zhang, Chinese Human Smuggling Organizations, Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, →ISBN, page 210:

Forms of Lianjiang

alternative formLienkong
alternative formLienchiang
alternative formLien-chiang
alternative formLienkiang
alternative formLimkong

Origin of Lianjiang

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 連江 /连江 (Liánjiāng).

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 廉江 (Liánjiāng).

Questions about Lianjiang

What does Lianjiang mean?
Lianjiang means a county of Fuzhou, Fujian, People's Republic of China.
How do you use Lianjiang in a sentence?
In Lianjiang, for example, teams of women apparently used collective funds to organize "large-scale play companies" and buy "ancient-style opera costumes.
What part of speech is Lianjiang?
Lianjiang is a proper noun.

Words near Lianjiang in the dictionary

  1. Liangzihu
  2. Liang–Barsky algorithm
  3. Lianhu
  4. Lianhua
  5. lianhuanhua
  6. Lianjiang
  7. Lianna
  8. Liannas
  9. lianoid
  10. Lianokladi
  11. lianqiaoxinoside

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