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Suqian

Syllables: Su·qian

Suqian proper noun: a prefecture-level city of Jiangsu, in eastern China.

Proper noun

Suqian

  1. A prefecture-level city of Jiangsu, in eastern China.
    • Leading members of party organizations at all levels in Suchien County, Kiangsu, have taken the lead in studying and applying the new party Constitution.[1970 July 9 [1970 June 17], “Kiangsu Party Activity”, in Daily Report: Communist China, volume I, number 132, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Nanking Kiangsu Provincial...
    • Coaches begin identifying prospects during regular visits to local elementary schools. Consider that in just one city — Suqian, in Jiangsu Province — every government district was asked to assess children from the ages of 8 to 13 and select candidates for sports schools.2008 August 3, Jim Yardley, “The State Requests That Citizen Liu Win Gold”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 06 Jan 2018, Play Magazine

Forms of Suqian

alternative formSutsien
alternative formSu-ch'ien

Origin of Suqian

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 宿遷 /宿迁 (Sùqiān).

Questions about Suqian

What does Suqian mean?
Suqian means a prefecture-level city of Jiangsu, in eastern China.
What part of speech is Suqian?
Suqian is a proper noun.

Words near Suqian in the dictionary

  1. supvrs.
  2. supvs.
  3. Supyire
  4. Supyire Senoufo
  5. suq
  6. Suqian
  7. suqs
  8. Suquamish
  9. Suqutra
  10. Suqutri
  11. Suquṭra

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