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Liaoxi

Syllables: Liao·xi

Liaoxi proper noun: a former province in northeast China (from 1949 to 1954), located in what is now part of Liaoning and Jilin provinces, and having the capital Jinzhou.

Proper noun

Liaoxi

  1. (historical) A former province in northeast China (from 1949 to 1954), located in what is now part of Liaoning and Jilin provinces, and having the capital Jinzhou.
    • In northeast China, Liaotung and Liaosi Provinces will be merged into newly reconstituted Liaoning Province.[1954 June 21, “Government Centralization Set for Communist China”, in The Christian Science Monitor, Atlantic edition, volume 46, number 174, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 10, column 5
    • Sudden deaths from respiratory anthrax also struck down a railway worker of Manjing train station in Changtu county, Liaoxi province, on 16 March 1952, a young schoolteacher in Liaoyang county on 8 April, and a housewife in Anshan city on 14 April.1998, Stephen Endicott, Edward Hagerman, “Aches and Fevers in China and Korea”, in The United States and Biological Warfare: Secrets from the Early Cold War and Korea, Bloomington; Indianapolis...

Origin of Liaoxi

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 遼西 /辽西 (Liáoxī).

Questions about Liaoxi

What does Liaoxi mean?
Liaoxi means a former province in northeast China (from 1949 to 1954), located in what is now part of Liaoning and Jilin provinces, and having the capital Jinzhou.
What part of speech is Liaoxi?
Liaoxi is a proper noun.

Words near Liaoxi in the dictionary

  1. Liaodong
  2. Liaodong Peninsula
  3. Liaoning
  4. Liaoning bronze dagger culture
  5. Liaotung
  6. Liaoxi
  7. Liaoyang
  8. Liaoyuan
  9. liar
  10. liar dice
  11. liar liar pants on fire

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