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Pienkuan

Pienkuan is the alternative form of Pianguan.

Meaning of Pianguan

Proper noun

Pianguan

  1. Synonym of Piantou, a mountain pass and important gate in Shanxi, China.
    Synonyms:
    Piantou
  2. A county of Xinzhou, Shanxi, China.
    • In 1958 and 1959 in conjunction with the execution of the Huanghe River (Yellow River) Water Conservancy Project, an investigation of paleolithic stone artifacts was conducted along the Huanghe River, from Togtoh County of the Nei Monggol (Inner Mongolian) Autonomous Region in the north to Pianguan...1980, Atlas of Primitive Man in China, Beijing: Science Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 130

Origin of Pienkuan

From Mandarin 偏關 /偏关 (Piānguān) Wade–Giles romanization: Pʻien¹-kuan¹.

Questions about Pienkuan

What is Pienkuan the alternative form of?
Pienkuan is the alternative form of Pianguan.

Words near Pienkuan in the dictionary

  1. piems
  2. piend
  3. piended
  4. piends
  5. Pieniny
  6. Pienkuan
  7. Pienta
  8. Pientas
  9. Piepenbrink
  10. Pieper
  11. pieplant

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Pienkuan (page history and authors); Pianguan (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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