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Yin-ch'uan

Yin-ch'uan is the alternative form of Yinchuan.

Meaning of Yinchuan

Proper noun

Yinchuan

  1. The capital city of the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, China
    • Peiping radio claimed tonight that Communists occupied Yinchuan, capital of Ninghsia Province in Central China two days ago.1949 September 26 [1949 September 25], “NATIONALISTS REVOLT”, in The Bombay Chronicle, volume XXXVII, number 228, Bombay, →OCLC, Stop Press, page 5, column 1

Origin of Yin-ch'uan

From Mandarin 銀川 /银川 (Yínchuān), Wade–Giles romanization: Yin²-chʻuan¹.

Questions about Yin-ch'uan

What is Yin-ch'uan the alternative form of?
Yin-ch'uan is the alternative form of Yinchuan.

Words near Yin-ch'uan in the dictionary

  1. yin
  2. yin choy
  3. Yin Chuan
  4. yin yang
  5. yin yeung
  6. Yin-ch'uan
  7. yin-yang
  8. yin-yang fish
  9. yin-yang fishes
  10. yin-yangs
  11. Yinchuan

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Yin-ch'uan (page history and authors); Yinchuan (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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