Tunliu
Syllables: Tun·liu
Tunliu proper noun: a district of Changzhi, Shanxi, China.
Proper noun
Tunliu
- A district of Changzhi, Shanxi, China.
- Not far from the Lu , in what is now Tun-liu district (12), the Liu-yü settled (13). The old town of Tun-liu, still reminding us of their name, lay further south than the present town of that name, and was already mentioned in the Han geography (Han-shu ch. 28 A, p. 44b).[1971, Jaroslav Průšek, Chinese Statelets and the Northern Barbarians in the Period 1400-300 B.C., →OCLC, page 152
- Further investigation showed that Ch’en’s wife’s home served as the liaison station for Kuomintang agents in Tunliu County, part of a network of stations leading from Southeast Shansi down into Honan.1983, William H. Hinton, “Anatomy of a Frame-up”, in Shenfan, New York: Vintage Books, published 1984, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 576
Origin of Tunliu
From Mandarin 屯留 (Túnliú).
Questions about Tunliu
- What does Tunliu mean?
- Tunliu means a district of Changzhi, Shanxi, China.
- What part of speech is Tunliu?
- Tunliu is a proper noun.
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