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Minquan

Syllables: Min·quan

Minquan proper noun: a county of Shangqiu, Henan, China.

Proper noun

Minquan

  1. A county of Shangqiu, Henan, China.
    • Under the pretext of commending the Little Red Guards of Hunagchuang^([sic – meaning Huangchuang]) [translating 黃莊 /黄庄] brigade of Lungtang [translating 龍塘 /龙塘 (Lóngtáng)] commune in Minchuan County, Honan, for their work in biological pest control, they went all out to trumpet the fallacy that...[1978 May 10 [1978 May 5], “A Despicable Act--Exposing and Criticizing the 'Gang of Four's' Exploitation of the Little Red Guards”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China, volume I, number 91...
    • In 1988, the following incident took place in Henan Province. In July, Jin Changfu, Party secretary of Chenya district of this Minquan County, heard that a peasant, Cai Fawang, sixty-three, had refused to hand in his grain. Last year, the grain production of most districts in Minquan County had...1989, Binyan (Liu Pin-yen) Liu, translated by Henry L. Epstein, "Tell the World": What Happened in China and Why, New York: Pantheon Books, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 148

Examples of Minquan in a sentence

  • In July, Jin Changfu, Party secretary of Chenya district of this Minquan County, heard that a peasant, Cai Fawang, sixty-three, had refused to hand in his grain.1989, Binyan (Liu Pin-yen) Liu, translated by Henry L. Epstein, "Tell the World": What Happened in China and Why, New York: Pantheon Books...
  • Xu was fond of noting his birth in a county called Minquan, which translates as “civil rights.”2009 August 9, Andrew Jacobs, “Arrest in China Rattles Backers of Legal Rights”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the...

Origin of Minquan

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 民權 /民权 (Mínquán).

Questions about Minquan

What does Minquan mean?
Minquan means a county of Shangqiu, Henan, China.
How do you use Minquan in a sentence?
In July, Jin Changfu, Party secretary of Chenya district of this Minquan County, heard that a peasant, Cai Fawang, sixty-three, had refused to hand in his grain.
What part of speech is Minquan?
Minquan is a proper noun.

Words near Minquan in the dictionary

  1. minovery
  2. minow
  3. minows
  4. minoxidil
  5. Minqin
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  7. Minquiers
  8. minrecordite
  9. minretumomab
  10. mins
  11. mins.

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