Mukden
Mukden proper noun: shenyang, in Liaoning province, China.
Proper noun
Mukden
- Shenyang, in Liaoning province, China.
- In such different towns as Mukden, Niu-chwang, Ch'ung-k'ing, Ch'êngtu, Chia-ting Fu, Sui Fu, Chao-t'ung Fu, Tung-ch'uan Fu, Yün-nan Fu, and Tali Fu, I encountered members of the missionary community, from all of whom I received a cordial hospitality and much valuable information.1908, Lawrence Dundas, 2nd Marquess of Zetland, A Wandering Student in the Far East, volume 1, William Blackwood and Sons, page xiii
- The reconstruction of the Tokyo-Shimonoseki section is of importance and ought to be done, not only because it forms a great artery of Japan, but also because it is the line which, when the Mukden-Antung standard-gauge railway is completed next November, will form part of the world’s railway...1915, Robert P. Porter, Japan, the New World-power, Oxford University Press, page 466
Examples of Mukden in a sentence
- Along this route the mails are now carried over the 2½ feet gauge mountain railway between Antung and Mukden, and thence to Harbin.1915, Robert P. Porter, Japan, the New World-power, Oxford University Press, page 466:
- In 1905, after the battles of Tsushima and Mukden, it became clear to impartial observers that Russia could accomplish nothing further at sea, and Japan could accomplish nothing further on land.1922, Bertrand Russell, The Problem of China, London: George Allen & Unwin, →OCLC, →OL, page 108:
- That day, a Manchurian Railway Company employee reportedly sent a note to Japanese consular authorities in Mukden, later Shenyang, the capital of Manchuria.2020, Thomas Rid, Active Measures: The Secret History of Disinformation and Political Warfare, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN...
Forms of Mukden
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Origin of Mukden
From Manchu ᠮᡠᡴ᠋ᡩᡝᠨ (mukden).
Questions about Mukden
- What does Mukden mean?
- Mukden means shenyang, in Liaoning province, China.
- How do you use Mukden in a sentence?
- Along this route the mails are now carried over the 2½ feet gauge mountain railway between Antung and Mukden, and thence to Harbin.
- What part of speech is Mukden?
- Mukden is a proper noun.
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