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Miyun

Syllables: Mi·yun

Miyun proper noun: a district of Beijing, China, formerly a county.

Proper noun

Miyun

  1. A district of Beijing, China, formerly a county.
    • Once, at the exit to a movie house in Hopei province's Mi-yün county, forty-one reactionary posters were found, and their contents were extremely reactionary.[1968 [1958], Jerome Alan Cohen, quoting Li Lo, “The Definition of Criminal Conduct”, in The Criminal Process in the People's Republic of China, 1949-1963: An Introduction, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard...
    • In 1971, the students in the Chinese department specializing in literature and their teachers went to a production brigade in Miyun County on Peking's outskirts to do some investigation work. The heroic deeds of Liu Mao-ching, the brigade's late Party branch secretary who had led the peasants in...1974 [1973 February 2], Theodore Hsi-en Chen, “Taking All Society as their Factory—Peking University's Achievements in Educational Revolution in the Liberal Arts”, in The Maoist Educational...

Examples of Miyun in a sentence

  • In 1971, the students in the Chinese department specializing in literature and their teachers went to a production brigade in Miyun County on Peking's outskirts to do some investigation work.1974 [1973 February 2], Theodore Hsi-en Chen, “Taking All Society as their Factory—Peking University's Achievements in Educational...
  • The news agency did not report the details of the accident, which took place in the Miyun County suburb on Thursday night, but it said the Chinese police confirmed there were 37 dead.2004 February 5, Christine Hauser, “At Least 37 Dead, 15 Injured in Festival Stampede in China”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC...

Origin of Miyun

From Mandarin 密雲 /密云 (Mìyún).

Questions about Miyun

What does Miyun mean?
Miyun means a district of Beijing, China, formerly a county.
How do you use Miyun in a sentence?
In 1971, the students in the Chinese department specializing in literature and their teachers went to a production brigade in Miyun County on Peking's outskirts to do some investigation work.
What part of speech is Miyun?
Miyun is a proper noun.

Words near Miyun in the dictionary

  1. Miyazawa
  2. Miyoko
  3. Miyoshi
  4. Miyu
  5. Miyuki
  6. Miyun
  7. miz
  8. Mizar
  9. Mizbeach
  10. Mize
  11. Mizell

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