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Lung-yen

Lung-yen is the alternative form of Longyan.

Meaning of Longyan

Proper noun

Longyan

  1. A prefecture-level city in southwestern Fujian, China.
    • In view of the successful results of the program for the establishment of owner-farmers that had been previously achieved at Lungyen, one of the seven hsien under the 7th Prefecture in Western Fukien Province, the 7th Prefectural Office wanted to implement a similar program in the other six hsien...[1954 October, Hui-sun Tang, “The Land Problem and Land Reform in Taiwan”, in Land Reform in Free China, Taipei: China Engraving & Printing Works, →OCLC, page 19

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Origin of Lung-yen

From Mandarin 龍巖 /龙岩 (Lóngyán), Wade–Giles romanization: Lung²-yen².

Questions about Lung-yen

What is Lung-yen the alternative form of?
Lung-yen is the alternative form of Longyan.

Words near Lung-yen in the dictionary

  1. lung-grown
  2. Lung-hai
  3. Lung-ling
  4. lung-power
  5. Lung-shan
  6. Lung-yen
  7. lungan
  8. Lungani
  9. lungans
  10. Lungchi
  11. Lungchiang

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Lung-yen (page history and authors); Longyan (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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