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Yibin

Syllables: Yi·bin

Yibin proper noun: a prefecture-level city of Sichuan, China.

Proper noun

Yibin

  1. A prefecture-level city of Sichuan, China.
    • About six that evening, they motored beneath the Jiang’an Changliang Bridge and into the city of Yibin, known from ancient times as the source of the Yangtze. And so said Yong just as the Great River split into the Jin Sha River to the right and Min River to the left.2007, Dan Armstrong, chapter 12, in Taming the Dragon (Fiction), →ISBN, →OCLC, page 82
    • Officials in Yibin, a city of 4.5 million, announced last week that they would name their new airport after the blindingly strong Wuliangye.2012 May 30, Didi Kirsten Tatlow, “Do You Know the Way to Wuliangye?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 31 May 2012, Letter from China
    Synonyms:
    Süchow

Synonyms of Yibin

Forms of Yibin

alternative formI-pin
alternative formIpin
alternative formYipin

Origin of Yibin

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 宜賓 /宜宾 (Yíbīn).

Questions about Yibin

What does Yibin mean?
Yibin means a prefecture-level city of Sichuan, China.
What part of speech is Yibin?
Yibin is a proper noun.

Words near Yibin in the dictionary

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  2. Yiannitsa
  3. Yiannopoulos
  4. YiB
  5. yibbum
  6. Yibin
  7. Yibit
  8. yibum
  9. Yichang
  10. Yicheng
  11. Yichuan

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