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Xiangling

Syllables: Xiang·ling

Xiangling proper noun: a county of Linfen, Shanxi, China.

Proper noun

Xiangling

  1. (historical) A county of Linfen, Shanxi, China.
    • A handful of women did join the Tianzu hui; in Xiangling county five were commended, along with six men, for their extraordinary dedication. The men received a horizontal plaque inscribed with an auspicious saying whereas the women’s prize was a standing trophy.[…]But with the participation of...2005, Dorothy Ko, “The Body Inside Out: The Practice of Fangtzu, 1900s–1930s”, in Cinderella's Sisters: A Revisionist History of Footbinding (History; Asian Studies; Gender Studies), University of...
    • It was not accidental that a local gazetteer was compiled in Xiangling County immediately after the famine — and in most of the more than one hundred counties and districts of Shanxi.2009, Andrea Janku, “"Heaven-Sent Disasters" in Late Imperial China: The Scope of the State and Beyond”, in Christof Mauch, Christian Pfister, editors, Natural Disasters, Cultural Responses: Case...

Examples of Xiangling in a sentence

  • A handful of women did join the Tianzu hui; in Xiangling county five were commended, along with six men, for their extraordinary dedication.2005, Dorothy Ko, “The Body Inside Out: The Practice of Fangtzu, 1900s–1930s”, in Cinderella's Sisters: A Revisionist History of...
  • Song Jijun had rebuilt the city walls of Xiangling (Fan, 1736).2023 December, Ping Hao, “Several strong historical earthquakes during Ming and Qing Dynasties and their effects to local reconstruction at...

Origin of Xiangling

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 襄陵.

Questions about Xiangling

What does Xiangling mean?
Xiangling means a county of Linfen, Shanxi, China.
How do you use Xiangling in a sentence?
A handful of women did join the Tianzu hui; in Xiangling county five were commended, along with six men, for their extraordinary dedication.
What part of speech is Xiangling?
Xiangling is a proper noun.

Words near Xiangling in the dictionary

  1. Xiangfen
  2. Xiangfu
  3. Xianggang
  4. Xianghe
  5. xiangjiangite
  6. Xiangling
  7. Xiangliu
  8. Xiangning
  9. xiangqi
  10. Xiangs
  11. Xiangshan

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