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Sanyi

Sanyi proper noun: a rural township in Miaoli County, Taiwan.

Proper noun

Sanyi

  1. A rural township in Miaoli County, Taiwan.
    • The airliner was flying at 22,000 feet, bound for the southern port of Kaohiung, when it exploded and crashed near the small town of Sanyi, 94 miles southwest of Taipei.1981 August 24, “Around the World; One Body Still Missing In Taiwan Air Disaster”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 24 May 2015, Section A, page 5
    • Two Boeing experts, Thurman Jones, air accident investigation coordinator and K.H. Hommel, a structural engineer, also arrived at the site of the accident between Yuanli, Tunglo and Shuanhu Villages near Sanyi township in Miaoli county, central Taiwan.1981 August 30, “Gov't. to find causes of air disaster”, in Free China Weekly, volume XXII, number 34, Taipei, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 2, column 3

Examples of Sanyi in a sentence

  • A worker checks a vehicle for radiation at a Nissan warehouse in Sanyi, Miaoli March 31, 2011.2011 July 27, Helen Massy-Beresford, Chang-Ran Kim, Gilles Guillaume, “Peugeot, Nissan smarting after Japan quake”, in Will Waterman, Chris...
  • The festival will take place at a campground about 23 kilometers south of Miaoli City in Sanyi Township.2022 May 20, Micah McCartney, “Earthfest returning to Taiwan in July”, in Taiwan News, archived from the original on 20 May 2022, Sports &...

Origin of Sanyi

From the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 三義 (Sānyì).

Questions about Sanyi

What does Sanyi mean?
Sanyi means a rural township in Miaoli County, Taiwan.
How do you use Sanyi in a sentence?
A worker checks a vehicle for radiation at a Nissan warehouse in Sanyi, Miaoli March 31, 2011.
What part of speech is Sanyi?
Sanyi is a proper noun.

Words near Sanyi in the dictionary

  1. Sanya
  2. Sanyakoan
  3. sanyaku
  4. sanyasi
  5. sanyasis
  6. Sanyi
  7. Sanyuan
  8. Sanz
  9. sanza
  10. Sanzari
  11. sanzas

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