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Nuannuan

Nuannuan proper noun: a district of Keelung, Taiwan.

Proper noun

Nuannuan

  1. A district of Keelung, Taiwan.
    • PLACE OF PRODUCTION.[…]
      Kelung, Nuannuan and Sikkow, (district of Tamsui).1873, “Catalogue of the Tamsui Collection of Samples and Specimens Sent to the Vienna Exhibition”, in Port Catalogues of the Chinese Customs' Collection at the Austro-Hungarian Universal Exhibition...
    • No decision has yet been reached on the question of opening a new Government mine at Nuan-nuan, which offers a better field, than Pa-tou for coal workings.[1896, J. D. Clark, Formosa, Shanghai: Shanghai Mercury, →OCLC, page 62

Examples of Nuannuan in a sentence

  • Larva has been found breeding in rock holes on stream beds at Neishuangchi, A2; in rock holes near the water-fall at Wulai, E32; and in rock holes on stream bed at Nuannuan, B7.1962, Pacific Insects, volume 4, Entomology Department, Bernice P. Bishop Museum, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 623:
  • Nuannuan Sports Park is located on the opposite side of Dongding Road and Nuangdong^([sic – meaning Nuandong]) Nursery Garden.n.d., “Nuannuan Sports Park”, in Department of Tourism and City Marketing, Keelung City Government, archived from the original on 23 Apr...

Forms of Nuannuan

alternative formNuan Nuan

Origin of Nuannuan

From the Mandarin 暖暖 (Nuǎnnuǎn).

Questions about Nuannuan

What does Nuannuan mean?
Nuannuan means a district of Keelung, Taiwan.
How do you use Nuannuan in a sentence?
Larva has been found breeding in rock holes on stream beds at Neishuangchi, A2; in rock holes near the water-fall at Wulai, E32; and in rock holes on stream bed at Nuannuan, B7.
What part of speech is Nuannuan?
Nuannuan is a proper noun.

Words near Nuannuan in the dictionary

  1. nuancedly
  2. nuanceless
  3. nuancely
  4. nuances
  5. nuancing
  6. Nuannuan
  7. Nuapada
  8. nuarimol
  9. nub
  10. nub theory
  11. Nuba

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