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Yongan

Syllables: Yong·an

Yongan proper noun: a district of Kaohsiung, Taiwan.

Proper noun

Yongan

  1. A district of Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
    • The Ciaotou District Prosecutors Office ruled on Friday that a man in his 70s whose body was found on a beach in Yong'an District, Kaohsiung a day earlier after swimming in the ocean, was mauled and killed by three stray dogs.[2025 July 4, Huang Hsueh-kuang, Kay Liu, “Swimmer in 70s mauled, killed by 3 stray dogs in Kaohsiung”, in Focus Taiwan, sourced from Kaohsiung (CNA), archived from the original on 04 Jul 2025...

Origin of Yongan

From Mandarin 永安 (Yǒng'ān).

Questions about Yongan

What does Yongan mean?
Yongan means a district of Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
What part of speech is Yongan?
Yongan is a proper noun.

Words near Yongan in the dictionary

  1. yong tao foo
  2. yong tau foo
  3. yong tau fu
  4. yong tofu
  5. Yong'an
  6. Yongan
  7. yongchak
  8. Yongchang
  9. Yongcheng
  10. Yongchuan
  11. Yongchun

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