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Yesanguan

Syllables: Ye·san·guan

Yesanguan proper noun: a town in Badong, Enshi prefecture, Hubei, China.

Proper noun

Yesanguan

  1. A town in Badong, Enshi prefecture, Hubei, China.
    • Under public pressure, Hubei officials freed her on bail. Mr. Wu helped recruit a prominent Beijing law firm to represent Ms. Deng.
      On May 22, Beijing censors ordered Web sites to stop reporting on the case. Four days later, television and the Internet were cut off in Yesanguan, the town where the...2009 June 16, Michael Wines, “Civic-Minded Chinese Find a Voice Online”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 29 Jan 2010, Asia Pacific
    • This bridge is a 0.7 mile (1.1 km) long suspension bridge spanning the deeply carved valley of the Sidu River near Yesanguan in Badong County, in the southwest of China's Hubei Province.2013, Wolfgang Kunth, editor, Terra Maxima: the Records of Humankind, Firefly Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 374

Examples of Yesanguan in a sentence

  • The Sidu River Bridge is located in Yesanguan Town, Badong County, Enshi Prefecture, Hubei, and formulates an essential link in the Yichang — Enshi section of Shanghai — Chengdu National Highway.2013, Bridge and Structural Engineering Branch, China Highway and Transportation Society, editor, Innovation-Oriented Contemporary Chinese...
  • The suspension bridge is situated in the remote Yesanguan Town of Badong County, Enshi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture, over Sidu River.2016 May 17, Sophie Williams, “Now THAT'S a high-way! Spectacular aerial images show China's impressive mountain overpass built over a...

Forms of Yesanguan

alternative formYehsankwan
alternative formYeh-san-kuan

Origin of Yesanguan

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 野三關 /野三关 (Yěsānguān).

Questions about Yesanguan

What does Yesanguan mean?
Yesanguan means a town in Badong, Enshi prefecture, Hubei, China.
How do you use Yesanguan in a sentence?
The Sidu River Bridge is located in Yesanguan Town, Badong County, Enshi Prefecture, Hubei, and formulates an essential link in the Yichang — Enshi section of Shanghai — Chengdu National Highway.
What part of speech is Yesanguan?
Yesanguan is a proper noun.

Words near Yesanguan in the dictionary

  1. yes-or-no question
  2. yes-or-no questions
  3. yes/no question
  4. yes/no questions
  5. yesable
  6. Yesanguan
  7. YESC
  8. yeser
  9. yesers
  10. yeses
  11. yesh

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