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Shaokuan

Shaokuan is the alternative form of Shaoguan.

Meaning of Shaoguan

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
    Synonyms:
    Shiukwan

Origin of Shaokuan

From Mandarin 韶關／韶关 (Sháoguān) Wade–Giles romanization: Shao²-kuan¹.

Questions about Shaokuan

What is Shaokuan the alternative form of?
Shaokuan is the alternative form of Shaoguan.

Words near Shaokuan in the dictionary

  1. Shaodongian
  2. Shaoguan
  3. Shaohing
  4. Shaohsing
  5. shaojiu
  6. Shaokuan
  7. Shaolin
  8. Shaoling
  9. shaomai
  10. Shaos
  11. Shaoshan

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Shaokuan (page history and authors); Shaoguan (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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