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Runan

Syllables: Ru·nan

Runan proper noun: a county of Zhumadian, Henan, China.

Proper noun

Runan

  1. A county of Zhumadian, Henan, China.
    • Peasants of Junan County, Honan, planted more than 120,000 mou of sesame seed in 1970. Average yield per mou was 19.7 percent higher than that in 1969 and a new record for the county. Delivery of edible oil crops to the state by Junan County in 1970 increased by 14 percent as compared with 1969....[1971 March 23 [1971 March 15], “Honan Sesame Harvest”, in Daily Report: Communist China, volume I, number 56, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Peking NCNA Domestic, translation of...
    • Tian Weiqin had been stationing his army in Runan county since 1921. Conflicts between troops and the local community did not occur until the defeat of the Zhili Army in 1924.1994, Odoric Y. K. Wou, “Mobilizing the Sectarians: The Communists and the Red Spears”, in Mobilizing the Masses: Building Revolution in Henan, Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN...

Origin of Runan

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 汝南 (Rǔnán).

Questions about Runan

What does Runan mean?
Runan means a county of Zhumadian, Henan, China.
What part of speech is Runan?
Runan is a proper noun.

Words near Runan in the dictionary

  1. runagate
  2. runagates
  3. runahead
  4. runaholic
  5. runaholics
  6. Runan
  7. runanga
  8. Runangan
  9. runangas
  10. runaround
  11. runarounds

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