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Yünnan

Yünnan is the alternative form of Yunnan.

Meaning of Yunnan

Proper noun

Yunnan

  1. A province in southwestern China, bordering Myanmar (Burma), Laos and Vietnam. Capital: Kunming.
    • Beſide theſe in the Province of Yunnan, which is very large, lying towards the South, in the latitude of 24 degrees, there is a great Countrie inhabited by a particular people, who uſe another language and other cuſtomes. They have a little King called by the Chineſſes, Thu Quon, a Mandarine of...1655, F. Alvarez Semedo, “Of the Moores, Jewes, and other Nations, that are in China”, in The History of That Great and Renowned Monarchy of China, E. Tyler, →OCLC, page 152

Questions about Yünnan

What is Yünnan the alternative form of?
Yünnan is the alternative form of Yunnan.

Words near Yünnan in the dictionary

  1. Yüeh-p'u-hu
  2. Yün-ch'eng
  3. Yün-meng
  4. Yün-nan
  5. Yün-yang
  6. Yünnan
  7. Yıldırım
  8. yōkai
  9. yōkais
  10. yōkan
  11. yūkaku

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Yünnan (page history and authors); Yunnan (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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