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Nuchiang

Nuchiang is the alternative form of Nujiang.

Meaning of Nujiang

Proper noun

Nujiang

  1. A Lisu autonomous prefecture in Yunnan, China.
    • On the side of a commercial van in the city, I saw the logo “Shangri-la Tours” written in English. Miffed by Lijiang's presumption, the Nujiang prefecture along the Salween River appointed a committee of academicians to study the origins of the Shangri-la myth, to see if they might claim it instead.2003, Noel Grove, Earth's Last Great Places: Exploring the Nature Conservancy Worldwide, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 173
  2. Nu River (the upper reaches of the Salween River in China).

Origin of Nuchiang

From Mandarin 怒江 (Nùjiāng) Wade–Giles romanization: Nu⁴-chiang¹.

Questions about Nuchiang

What is Nuchiang the alternative form of?
Nuchiang is the alternative form of Nujiang.

Words near Nuchiang in the dictionary

  1. nuchalgia
  2. nuchals
  3. nuchas
  4. Nuchen
  5. Nuchens
  6. Nuchiang
  7. Nuchih
  8. nuchthemerinal
  9. Nuchên
  10. Nuchêns
  11. Nuci

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Nuchiang (page history and authors); Nujiang (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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