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Xuan'en

Syllables: Xuan·en

Xuan'en proper noun: a county of Enshi prefecture, Hubei, China.

Proper noun

Xuan'en

  1. A county of Enshi prefecture, Hubei, China.
    • (Chunmuying) District of Hsuanen County has fulfilled this year's grain procurement quota.[1969 December 9 [1969 December 3], “Hupeh Agriculture”, in Daily Report: Communist China, volume I, number 237, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Wuhan Hupeh Provincial...
    • Some cadres kept two sets of books, one with the real figures in the village and another with fake numbers for the eyes of grain inspectors. This was widespread in several counties in Guangdong province.²³ In Xuan’en county, Hubei, one in three book-keepers falsified the accounts.2011, Frank Dikötter, Mao's Great Famine, Bloomsbury, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 212

Forms of Xuan'en

alternative formSuanen
alternative formSüanen
alternative formHsuan-en
alternative formHsüan-en

Origin of Xuan'en

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 宣恩 (Xuān'ēn).

Questions about Xuan'en

What does Xuan'en mean?
Xuan'en means a county of Enshi prefecture, Hubei, China.
What part of speech is Xuan'en?
Xuan'en is a proper noun.

Words near Xuan'en in the dictionary

  1. Xty
  2. xu
  3. xuan paper
  4. xuan papers
  5. Xuan Wu
  6. Xuan'en
  7. Xuancheng
  8. Xuanhua
  9. xuanhuan
  10. Xuanwei
  11. Xuanwu

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