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Qingjiangpu

Syllables: Qing·jiang·pu

Qingjiangpu proper noun: a district of Huai'an, in central Jiangsu, in eastern China.

Proper noun

Qingjiangpu

  1. A district of Huai'an, in central Jiangsu, in eastern China.
    • 15. Chingchiangpu-Kwachou (on the Yangtse opposite the Chinkiang Railway). It was proposed to build the line from T’ungchou at the mouth of the Yangtse through Chingchiangpu and on to Haichow. The loan agreement to build the section from Tunchow to Chingchiangpu was recently abandoned, however...[1914, Rowland R. Gibson, Forces Mining and Undermining China, 2nd edition, London: Andrew Melrose, →OCLC, →OL, pages 186–187
    • Further south in Qingjiangpu, the missionaries reported: "During the ten years that foreigners have been in the city there has never been so much robbery as now—the whole vicinity is terrorized."1987, Joseph W. Esherick, The Origins of the Boxer Uprising, University of California Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 174

Forms of Qingjiangpu

alternative formTsingkiangpu
alternative formCh'ing-chiang-p'u

Origin of Qingjiangpu

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 清江浦 (Qīngjiāngpǔ).

Questions about Qingjiangpu

What does Qingjiangpu mean?
Qingjiangpu means a district of Huai'an, in central Jiangsu, in eastern China.
What part of speech is Qingjiangpu?
Qingjiangpu is a proper noun.

Words near Qingjiangpu in the dictionary

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

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