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Xiangyuan

Syllables: Xiang·yuan

Xiangyuan proper noun: a county of Changzhi, Shanxi, China.

Proper noun

Xiangyuan

  1. A county of Changzhi, Shanxi, China.
    • In the spring of 1938 the Japanese imperialists invaded Yü-tz'u and T'ai-ku in Shansi. Everyone was in panic as the flames of war came closer and closer to Hsiang-yüan hsien.[1976, Sidney L. Greenblatt, editor, The People of Taihang, White Plains, NY: International Arts and Sciences Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 168
    • They labored on the railroad embankment, section by section, from West Changchih Station all the way north to Wuyang, the village in Hsiangyuan County that in 1971 served as the northern terminus of the line.[1983, William Hinton, “Two Dams and a Railroad”, in Shenfan, New York: Vintage Books, published 1984, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 226

Origin of Xiangyuan

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 襄垣 (Xiāngyuán).

Questions about Xiangyuan

What does Xiangyuan mean?
Xiangyuan means a county of Changzhi, Shanxi, China.
What part of speech is Xiangyuan?
Xiangyuan is a proper noun.

Words near Xiangyuan in the dictionary

  1. Xiangtan
  2. Xiangxi
  3. Xiangxiang
  4. Xiangyang
  5. Xiangyao
  6. Xiangyuan
  7. Xiangzhou
  8. Xianity
  9. Xianju
  10. Xianning
  11. xians

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