Yalong
Syllables: Ya·long
Yalong proper noun: a river in Sichuan, China.
Proper noun
Yalong
- A river in Sichuan, China.
- Even among the tributaries of the two great rivers of China, many rivers may be found of considerable length, and some scarcely inferior to the largest rivers of Europe. At the head of these are the Han-shwuy, which, rising in the mountains between Shense and Kansuh, empties itself into the...[1832 June, “Ta-tsing Wan-neen Yih-tung King-wei Yu-too,—"A general geographical map, with degrees of latitude and longitude, of the Empire of the Ta-tsing Dynasty—may it last for ever." By Le...
- Even among the tributaries of the two great rivers of China, many rivers may be found of cansiderable^([sic – meaning considerable]) length, and some scarcely inferior to the largest rivers of Europe. At the head of these are the Han-shwuy, which, rising in the mountains between Shense and Kansuh...[1833 [1832 June], “Ta Tsing Wan-neën Yih-tung King-wei Yu-too,—"A general geographical map, with degrees of latitude and longitude, of the Empire of the Ta Tsing Dynasty—may it last for ever." By Le...
Origin of Yalong
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 雅礱 /雅砻 (Yǎlóng).
Words that rhyme with Yalong
Questions about Yalong
- What does Yalong mean?
- Yalong means a river in Sichuan, China.
- What part of speech is Yalong?
- Yalong is a proper noun.
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