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Shaoguan

/ʃaʊˈɡwɑn/

Shaoguan proper noun: a prefecture-level city of Guangdong, China.

Proper noun

Shaoguan

  1. A prefecture-level city of Guangdong, China.
    • The transfers began in the early 2000s, and by the first half of 2009, nearly 100,000 Uyghur workers had been sent east under this programme. Several hundred of them were working from May 2009 in the Xuri Toy Factory in Shaoguan, Guangdong, a facility that made toys for Hasboro, Mattel and other...2007, James A. Millward, Eurasian Crossroads: A History of Xinjiang, London: Hurst & Company, published 2021, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 368
    • The region has been simmering since a factory brawl in the southern Chinese city Shaoguan last month that killed two Uighurs.2009 July 7, Disha Uppal, “Tension Remains High in Xinjiang”, in Anne Thomas, editor, Deutsche Welle, archived from the original on 28 Jan 2024
    Synonyms:
    Shiukwan

Synonyms of Shaoguan

Forms of Shaoguan

alternative formShaokuan
alternative formShao-kuan

Origin of Shaoguan

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 韶關 /韶关 (Sháoguān).

Questions about Shaoguan

What does Shaoguan mean?
Shaoguan means a prefecture-level city of Guangdong, China.
What part of speech is Shaoguan?
Shaoguan is a proper noun.
How do you pronounce Shaoguan?
Shaoguan is pronounced /ʃaʊˈɡwɑn/.

Words near Shaoguan in the dictionary

  1. Shao-kuan
  2. Shao-lin
  3. Shao-shan
  4. shaobing
  5. Shaodongian
  6. Shaoguan
  7. Shaohing
  8. Shaohsing
  9. shaojiu
  10. Shaokuan
  11. Shaolin

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