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Meichuan

Syllables: Mei·chuan

Meichuan proper noun: a town in Wuxue, Huanggang, Hubei, China.

Proper noun

Meichuan

  1. A town in Wuxue, Huanggang, Hubei, China.
    • AT 10:12, the bus crossed the Yangtze River, and Min jerked awake. She said aloud the name of every town we passed on the highway: Huangshi, Meichuan, Huangmei. “We’re almost there,” she said, her voice tight with excitement.2008, Leslie T. Chang, Factory Girls: From Village to City in a Changing China, New York: Spiegel & Grau, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 277
    • The unattended boy was found missing when his grandmother returned to their home in Meichuan town in the city of Wuxue after working in the fields, having told the boy an hour before to stay at home and watch television, the ChuTian Metropolis Daily reported.2016 July 29, Natalie Mu, “Boy, 2, dies of heatstroke in central China mountains while looking for his grandmother”, in South China Morning Post, archived from the original on 09 May 2022

Forms of Meichuan

alternative formMei-ch'uan

Origin of Meichuan

From Mandarin 梅川 (Méichuān).

Questions about Meichuan

What does Meichuan mean?
Meichuan means a town in Wuxue, Huanggang, Hubei, China.
What part of speech is Meichuan?
Meichuan is a proper noun.

Words near Meichuan in the dictionary

  1. meiboscores
  2. meibum
  3. meibutsu
  4. meicatalecticizant
  5. meicatalecticizants
  6. Meichuan
  7. meid
  8. meidan
  9. meidans
  10. meidaun
  11. meidauns

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