Xuanwei
Syllables: Xuan·wei
Xuanwei proper noun: a county-level city of Qujing, Yunnan, China.
Proper noun
Xuanwei
- A county-level city of Qujing, Yunnan, China.
- Nonsmoking women in an area of China’s Yunnan province die of lung cancer at a rate 20 times that of their counterparts in other regions of the country — and higher than anywhere else in the world.[…]
Like others in rural China, the families of Xuanwei County use coal for heat and for cooking. As...2010 January 11, Sindya N. Bhanoo, “Coal Is Linked to Cancer in China Province”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 14 Jan 2010, Health
- Nonsmoking women in an area of China’s Yunnan province die of lung cancer at a rate 20 times that of their counterparts in other regions of the country — and higher than anywhere else in the world.[…]
Forms of Xuanwei
| alternative form | Suanwei |
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Origin of Xuanwei
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization for Mandarin 宣威 (Xuānwēi).
Questions about Xuanwei
- What does Xuanwei mean?
- Xuanwei means a county-level city of Qujing, Yunnan, China.
- What part of speech is Xuanwei?
- Xuanwei is a proper noun.
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