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Liaoyuan

Syllables: Liao·yuan

Liaoyuan proper noun: a prefecture-level city of Jilin, China.

Proper noun

Liaoyuan

  1. A prefecture-level city of Jilin, China.
    • A barber shop in Liaoyuan, Kirin Province, Northeast China, is described by workers, peasants and soldiers as close to their hearts. Changes in this barber shop show the tranformation^([sic – meaning transformation]) in China's service trades as a result of tempering in the great proletarian...1969 April 23 [1969 April 22], “Kirin Barbershop Serves Peasants, Workers”, in Daily Report: Communist China, volume I, number 78, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Peking NCNA...
    • They waited on the platform as our overnight train pulled into Liaoyuan, a small (by Chinese standards) Northeastern city of one million people. They were my first impression of Manchuria, and I liked them immediately.2015, Michael Meyer, “Quid Pro Quo”, in In Manchuria: A Village Called Wasteland and the Transformation of Rural China, Bloomsbury Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 21

Forms of Liaoyuan

alternative formLiao-yüan

Origin of Liaoyuan

From Mandarin 遼源 /辽源 (Liáoyuán).

Questions about Liaoyuan

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

Words near Liaoyuan in the dictionary

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