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Qianjiang

Syllables: Qian·jiang

Qianjiang proper noun: a sub-prefectural city of Hubei, China, formerly a county.

Proper noun (1)

Qianjiang

  1. A sub-prefectural city of Hubei, China, formerly a county.
    • Good news on the summer harvest prevailed in the countryside of Chienchiang County, Hupeh. The county reported remarkable increased in its 600,000 mou of summer food crops this year, surpassing the yield in 1962 which was considered as the best year.[1965 July 9 [1965 June 7], “Chienchiang County Reports Increase in Crops”, in Daily Report: Foreign Radio Broadcasts, number 131, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Wuhan Domestic...
    • The construction of democratic politics in some regions went backward. For example, Qianjiang Municipality in Hubei Province was given an award as the National Model City of the Villagers’ Autonomy by the Ministry of Civil Affairs, but “there was an incident in which most of the members of the...2011, Jianfei (刘建飞) Liu, 民主中国与世界 [Democracy and China], Beijing: New World Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 109

Proper noun (2)

Qianjiang

  1. A district of Chongqing, China.
    • Sinopec’s first exploratory well, Qianye-1, in the Qianjiang district of Chongqing, was completed in early 2012 and flowed a significant amount of gas.2013 January 17, John Kemp, “COLUMN-China offers greatest prize of all for shale gas: Kemp”, in Reuters, archived from the original on 20 Aug 2023, Oil Report

Forms of Qianjiang

alternative formCh'ien-chiang
alternative historical (obsolete)Tsienkiang

Origin of Qianjiang

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 潛江 /潜江 (Qiánjiāng).

From the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 黔江 (Qiánjiāng).

Questions about Qianjiang

What does Qianjiang mean?
Qianjiang means a sub-prefectural city of Hubei, China, formerly a county.
What part of speech is Qianjiang?
Qianjiang is a proper noun.

Words near Qianjiang in the dictionary

  1. Qian'an
  2. Qiana
  3. Qiandongnan
  4. Qiang
  5. Qiangic
  6. Qianjiang
  7. Qianlong
  8. Qiannan
  9. Qians
  10. Qiantang
  11. Qianxi

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