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Qingjian

Syllables: Qing·jian

Qingjian proper noun: a county of Yulin, Shaanxi, China.

Proper noun

Qingjian

  1. A county of Yulin, Shaanxi, China.
    • Each time that General Liu Chih-tan arrived in a place, he always opened out his maps and studied them carefully. Then he would look for villagers to talk to, asking them about this and about that. In 1934, he led a part of the Northern Shensi Red Army, stationing them at Hua-an Monastery in...[1971, Charles Price Ridley, Paul H. B. Godwin, Dennis J. Doolin, The Making of a Model Citizen in Communist China, Stanford, Cali.: Hoover Institution Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 351
    • When this poem was written, Mao Zedong stayed in Yuanjiagou of the Qingjian County, Shaanxi Province, planning to lead the Red Army in making an eastern journey to the Anti-Japanese War front at Hebei Province.1993, Gu Zhengkun (辜正坤), transl., Poems of Mao Zedong, Beijing: Peking University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 103

Origin of Qingjian

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 清澗 /清涧.

Questions about Qingjian

What does Qingjian mean?
Qingjian means a county of Yulin, Shaanxi, China.
What part of speech is Qingjian?
Qingjian is a proper noun.

Words near Qingjian in the dictionary

  1. qinghaosu
  2. Qinghe
  3. qingheiite
  4. qingheiites
  5. Qinghemen
  6. Qingjian
  7. Qingjiangpu
  8. Qingjin
  9. Qinglong
  10. Qingming
  11. Qingming Festival

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