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Shaanzhong

Shaanzhong proper noun: the central part of Shaanxi, China.

Proper noun

Shaanzhong

  1. The central part of Shaanxi, China.
    • A man from Shaanzhong, Mr. Jia, sent a matchmaker to Ms. Lan and persuaded her to marry him in Wang's house.2014, Songling Pu, “Jinse”, in Arthur Zhu, transl., The Painted Skin: Selected Stories from The Remarkable Stories Told at a Chinese Salon (Liao Zhai Zhi Yi), page 128

Origin of Shaanzhong

From a modified form of the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 陝中 /陕中 following the pattern of Shaanxi.

Questions about Shaanzhong

What does Shaanzhong mean?
Shaanzhong means the central part of Shaanxi, China.
What part of speech is Shaanzhong?
Shaanzhong is a proper noun.

Words near Shaanzhong in the dictionary

  1. shaal
  2. Shaan-Gan-Ning
  3. Shaanbei
  4. Shaangxi
  5. Shaanxi
  6. Shaanzhong
  7. Shaath
  8. shaatnez
  9. shab
  10. Shabak
  11. Shabaki

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