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Wanquan

Wanquan proper noun: a district of Zhangjiakou, Hebei, China, formerly a county.

Proper noun

Wanquan

  1. A district of Zhangjiakou, Hebei, China, formerly a county.
    • According to the paintings, the tomb’s owner had been an unimportant official attending the emperor; previously, he had been a Duwei (officer in charge of a prefecture’s troops), Changshi (assistant prefect) and magistrate. His highest rank was Shishijie Huwuhuan Xiaowei (an official in charge of...1997, Wenyuan Liu, “Cultural Relics of Great Wall”, in Tales of the Great Wall [长城的故事], Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, pages 78–79
    • In his surveys of northern Hebei, Willem Grootaers found an average of 6.8 temples per village in Wanquan County and 4.5 per village in neighboring Xuanhua.2005, Thomas David DuBois, The Sacred Village: Social Change and Religious Life in Rural North China, Honolulu: University of Hawaiʻi Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 49

Examples of Wanquan in a sentence

  • His office was situated in Ningcheng, or today’s Wanquan County, Hebei Province.1997, Wenyuan Liu, “Cultural Relics of Great Wall”, in Tales of the Great Wall [长城的故事], Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, →ISBN, →OCLC...
  • Gujiagou is a small hamlet in Wanquan County in Zhangjiakou, Hebei Province.2011 November 4, Dongya Zhang, “Sexual struggle in the countryside”, in Beijing Today, number 543, →OCLC, page 19:

Origin of Wanquan

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 萬全 /万全 (Wànquán).

Questions about Wanquan

What does Wanquan mean?
Wanquan means a district of Zhangjiakou, Hebei, China, formerly a county.
How do you use Wanquan in a sentence?
His office was situated in Ningcheng, or today’s Wanquan County, Hebei Province.
What part of speech is Wanquan?
Wanquan is a proper noun.

Words near Wanquan in the dictionary

  1. Wanning
  2. wannion
  3. wannish
  4. wannit
  5. Wannon
  6. Wanquan
  7. wanrestful
  8. Wanrong
  9. wanrufe
  10. wans
  11. Wansbeck

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