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Tan-chiang-k'ou

Tan-chiang-k'ou is the alternative form of Danjiangkou.

Meaning of Danjiangkou

Proper noun

Danjiangkou

  1. A county-level city of Shiyan, Hubei, China.
    • 2. Another hydroelectric project, this time at Tanchiangkou in Hupeh province, which includes a 900,000 kilowatt power station. China is rich in energy resources, having plentiful supplies of coal, oil, and water for hydroelectric schemes such as this.[1979, Harold C. Hinton, “China's foreign policy and national interest”, in Ray Bonds, editor, The Chinese War Machine: A technical analysis of the strategy and weapons of the People's Republic of...

Origin of Tan-chiang-k'ou

From Mandarin 丹江口 (Dānjiāngkǒu) Wade–Giles romanization: Tan¹-chiang¹-kʻou³.

Questions about Tan-chiang-k'ou

What is Tan-chiang-k'ou the alternative form of?
Tan-chiang-k'ou is the alternative form of Danjiangkou.

Words near Tan-chiang-k'ou in the dictionary

  1. tan track
  2. tan tracks
  3. tan up
  4. Tan-ag Ibaba
  5. Tan-ag Ilaya
  6. Tan-chiang-k'ou
  7. Tan-chou
  8. Tan-feng
  9. Tan-kea
  10. Tan-shui
  11. Tan-tung

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Tan-chiang-k'ou (page history and authors); Danjiangkou (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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