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Lingqiu

Syllables: Ling·qiu/(ˈ)lɪŋˈtʃu/

Lingqiu proper noun: a county of Datong, Shanxi, China.

Proper noun

Lingqiu

  1. A county of Datong, Shanxi, China.
    • In 1948 a report was published to show the usefulness of special organizations for women. It said that in the winter of 1947 several defunct organizations for women had been abolished in Lingqiu county, Shanxi, and at the beginning of mobilizing for land reform no distinction had been made between...1979, Delia Davin, Woman-Work: Women and the Party in Revolutionary China, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, pages 43–44
    • Aerial photo taken on Feb. 25, 2021 shows villagers rehearsing dragon dance in Andi Village, Lingqiu County, north China's Shanxi Province. Performing dragon and lion dance during the first month of the lunar year is a century-long tradition in Andi Village. Last year, this folk activity was...2021 March 2, “Villagers rehearse dragon and lion dance in Andi Village, Shanxi”, in huaxia, editor, Xinhua News Agency, archived from the original on 13 May 2022

Forms of Lingqiu

alternative formLing-ch'iu

Origin of Lingqiu

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 靈邱 /靈丘 /灵丘.

Questions about Lingqiu

What does Lingqiu mean?
Lingqiu means a county of Datong, Shanxi, China.
What part of speech is Lingqiu?
Lingqiu is a proper noun.
How do you pronounce Lingqiu?
Lingqiu is pronounced /(ˈ)lɪŋˈtʃu/.

Words near Lingqiu in the dictionary

  1. lingonberry
  2. lingos
  3. lingot
  4. lingots
  5. Lingqijing
  6. Lingqiu
  7. lings
  8. Lingshan
  9. Lingshi
  10. Lingshui
  11. lingster

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