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Longjiang

Syllables: Long·jiang

Longjiang proper noun: a county of Qiqihar, Heilongjiang, China.

Proper noun

Longjiang

  1. A county of Qiqihar, Heilongjiang, China.
    • Colonel Zhai was born into a poor family in a village in Heilongjiang's Longjiang county, and he might never have realised his dream if not for his mother, who sold toasted sunflower seeds to pay for his education.2008 September 27, “Zhai Zhigang: long wait to realise dream”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 12 Mar 2024
  2. A former village in Zhejiang, China, now part of Longgang.
  3. Former name of the Jiulong: a river in southern Fujian, China.

Forms of Longjiang

alternative formLungchiang

Origin of Longjiang

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 龍江 /龙江 (Lóngjiāng), "Dragon River".

Questions about Longjiang

What does Longjiang mean?
Longjiang means a county of Qiqihar, Heilongjiang, China.
What part of speech is Longjiang?
Longjiang is a proper noun.

Words near Longjiang in the dictionary

  1. longitudinals
  2. longitudinous
  3. Longjam
  4. longjaw
  5. Longjia
  6. Longjiang
  7. Longjing
  8. longjohn
  9. longjohns
  10. longjump
  11. longkang

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