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Lichuan

Syllables: Li·chuan

Lichuan proper noun: a county-level city of the Enshi autonomous region, Hubei, China.

Proper noun (1)

Lichuan

  1. A county-level city of the Enshi autonomous region, Hubei, China.
    • Agramma hupehanum was first reported from the Lichuan District, Western Hupeh, China by Drake and Maa on July 17, 1947.1985 December, David Livingstone, S. Jeyanthi Bai, Md. Yacoob, “Functional Anatomy of the Egg and Nymphal Morphology of the Grass Tingid Agramma hupehanum (Drake & Maa) (Heteroptera: Tingidae) with a...
    • Tourists pass over a bridge above where the Qing River flows through Tenglong Cave, near Lichuan in Enshi prefecture.2021 October 11, Michael Standaert, Eva Dou, “In search for covid origins, Hubei caves and wildlife farms draw new scrutiny”, in Washington Post, archived from the original on 11 Oct 2021, Asia &...

Proper noun (2)

Lichuan

  1. A county of Fuzhou, Jiangxi, China.
    • In the spirit of self-reliance, the poor and lower-middle peasants of (Tanhsi) commune in Lichuan County, Kiangsi, have built 14 small-size hydropower stations, nine of which are already in operation.1969 December 16 [1969 December 8], “Kiangsi Water Conservation”, in Daily Report: Communist China, volume I, number 242, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Nanchang Kiangsi...

Forms of Lichuan

alternative formLichwan
alternative formLi-ch'uan

Origin of Lichuan

From Mandarin 利川 (Lìchuān).

From Mandarin 黎川 (Líchuān).

Questions about Lichuan

What does Lichuan mean?
Lichuan means a county-level city of the Enshi autonomous region, Hubei, China.
What part of speech is Lichuan?
Lichuan is a proper noun.

Words near Lichuan in the dictionary

  1. lichtlying
  2. Lichtman
  3. Lichtmans
  4. Lichty
  5. Lichtys
  6. Lichuan
  7. lichwake
  8. lichwakes
  9. lichwale
  10. lichwales
  11. Lichwan

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