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Singkiang

Singkiang is the misspelling of Sinkiang.

Meaning of Sinkiang

Proper noun

Sinkiang

  1. Synonym of Xinjiang: A Uyghur autonomous region of China, located in the sparsely populated northwest.
    • I, the Minister, having received this dispatch have examined and find it contains, that having arrested three culprits Tsáutsz' Láutá, Hwá Kwányuen and Cháng Süchun, they have been sentenced to decapitation, and their heads to be hung up in a cage upon a pole to public view; and six others Cháng...[1848 September 22, 徐廣縉 [Sü Kwángtsin], “Official Correspondence relating to the death of the Rev. Walter M. Lowrie”, in The Chinese Repository, volume XVII, number 9, chapter 3, page 486
    Synonyms:
    Xinjiang

Questions about Singkiang

What is Singkiang the misspelling of?
Singkiang is the misspelling of Sinkiang.

Words near Singkiang in the dictionary

  1. singkamas
  2. Singkapor
  3. Singkarpor
  4. Singkawang
  5. singkek
  6. Singkiang
  7. Singla
  8. Singlas
  9. single
  10. single action
  11. single and ready to mingle

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Singkiang (page history and authors); Sinkiang (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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