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Yü-li

Yü-li is the alternative form of Yuli.

Meaning of Yuli

Proper noun (1)

Yuli

  1. An urban township in Hualien County, Taiwan.
    • Sunday's quakes damaged the east coast railroad at seven places in the 75-mile stretch between Hualien and Taitung.
      Hualien, hard hit by quakes that killed about 100 persons Oct. 22 and 23, suffered no casualties Sunday.
      The rail towns of Yuli and Fuli 50 and 60 miles south, bore the bunt of the...1951 November 26, “15 Killed, Over 200 Hurt In Latest Formosa Quakes”, in Victoria Daily Times, volume 118, number 279, Victoria, B.C., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 6, columns 6, 7

Proper noun (2)

Yuli

  1. A county of Bayingolin prefecture, Xinjiang autonomous region, China.
    • For example, during the reign of Han Cho Ti (86-74 B.C.) there were more than 500,000 mows of irrigated farmlands around Luntai (Lun-dai) and Yuli (Werli) cities in the lower reaches of the Tarim River.[...]Thus, the ancient extensive farmlands around Luntai and Yuli have now been all turned into...1984, Farouk El-Baz, editor, Deserts and Arid Lands, Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 109
  2. A town in Yuli, Bayingolin prefecture, Xinjiang autonomous region, China.
    Synonyms:
    Wei-li

Origin of Yü-li

From Mandarin 尉犁 (Yùlí) Wade–Giles romanization: Yü⁴-li².

Questions about Yü-li

What is Yü-li the alternative form of?
Yü-li is the alternative form of Yuli.

Words near Yü-li in the dictionary

  1. yé-yés
  2. Yên Bái
  3. Yörük
  4. Yörüks
  5. Yü Shan
  6. Yü-li
  7. Yü-lin
  8. Yü-t'ien
  9. Yü-tien
  10. Yüan
  11. Yüeh

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Yü-li (page history and authors); Yuli (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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