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Lien-chiang

Lien-chiang is the alternative form of Lienchiang.

Lien-chiang is the alternative form of Lianjiang.

Meaning of Lienchiang

Proper noun

Lienchiang

  1. A county of Taiwan, synonymous with the Matsu Islands.
    • Matsu. JCRR in FY1964 continued to provide local farmers with seeds of superior varieties of dryland crops and vegetables, and selected five young farmers for training in cultural techniques in Taiwan. Technical assistance was given by the agricultural experiment station of the Lienchiang County...1963, General Report of the Joint Commission on Rural Reconstruction, Joint Commission on Rural Reconstruction, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 115
    Synonyms:
    Matsu

Meaning of Lianjiang

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

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...

Origin of Lien-chiang

From the Wade–Giles romanization of the Mandarin 連江 /连江 (Lien²-chiang¹).

Questions about Lien-chiang

What is Lien-chiang the alternative form of?
Lien-chiang is the alternative form of Lienchiang.

Words near Lien-chiang in the dictionary

  1. liements
  2. liempo
  3. liempos
  4. Liems
  5. lien
  6. Lien-chiang
  7. Lien-yün-kang
  8. Liena
  9. lienable
  10. lienal
  11. Lienchiang

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Lien-chiang (page history and authors); Lienchiang (page history and authors); Lianjiang (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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