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Qingyuan

Syllables: Qing·yuan

Qingyuan proper noun: a district of Baoding, Hebei, China.

Proper noun (1)

Qingyuan

  1. A district of Baoding, Hebei, China.
    • The same point of view was expounded in a folk ditty of Hopei Province: "Bound feet, bound feet, past the gate can't retreat."⁶[1967, Howard S. Levy, “Introductory Remarks”, in Chinese Footbinding: The History of a Curious Erotic Custom, New York: Bell Publishing Company, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 30, 301
    • The political and legal affairs committee of Qingyuan district in Baoding, Hebei province, announced on Friday that it would look into the allegation after a report by The Beijing News that day.
    • According to the report, the police officer, identified only by his family name Yang, was being tried for dereliction of duty in Qingyuan District People’s Court last month when he submitted a recording of a conversation in which the boss allegedly tells Yang and an auxiliary officer to take full...2019 December 9, Zhuang Pinghui, “Communist Party to reopen death in custody case after police officer claims he was scapegoat”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original...

Proper noun (2)

Qingyuan

  1. A Manchu autonomous county in Fushun, Liaoning, China.

Proper noun (3)

Qingyuan

  1. A prefecture-level city of Guangdong, China.
    • Lt. Col. G. B. Fisher, Three Years' Service in China (1863), p. 57, gives the following conversation between the emperor and the provincial judge of Kwangtung, referring to the campaign against rebels in Ch’ing-yüan Hsien (Kwangtung): "Question. Which are foremost in action, the regulars or the...[1960, Kung-chuan Hsiao, Rural China: Imperial Control in the Nineteenth Century, University of Washington Press, published 1967, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 655
    • 1945
      January[…]
      19. China: Japanese troops take Chingyuan, on the Canton to Hankow railway.[2004, “Chronicle September 1939–August 1945”, in World War II: Day by Day, DK, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 599, column 1

Forms of Qingyuan

alternative formCh'ing-yüan

Origin of Qingyuan

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 清苑 (Qīngyuàn).

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 清原.

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 清遠 /清远 (Qīngyuǎn).

Questions about Qingyuan

What does Qingyuan mean?
Qingyuan means a district of Baoding, Hebei, China.
What part of speech is Qingyuan?
Qingyuan is a proper noun.

Words near Qingyuan in the dictionary

  1. Qingu
  2. Qingxiu
  3. Qingxu
  4. Qingyang
  5. qingyangshengenin
  6. Qingyuan
  7. Qingyunpu
  8. qingzhen
  9. Qinhuangdao
  10. Qinling Mountains
  11. Qinnan

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