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Yongshou

Syllables: Yong·shou

Yongshou proper noun: a county of Xianyang, Shaanxi, China.

Proper noun

Yongshou

  1. A county of Xianyang, Shaanxi, China.
    • There was little poppy cultivation to note during the day : when nearing the uplands after leaving Pin Chou I saw a man carrying a bundle of poppy-stalks, with capsules, down hill and near the village of Ti-yao-kou, ten miles from Yung-shou Hsien, but still within the department of Pin Chou, I...[1914, Alexander Hosie, On the Trail of the Opium Poppy, volume I, Boston: Small, Maynard & Company, →OCLC, page 165
    • Yongshou County to the north-west of Xi’an has also seen growth: from 1,200 Christians in just one church in 1992 to over 4,000 baptised believers in thirteen churches in 1996.1999, Tony Lambert, “A survey of church growth, province by province”, in China's Christian Millions, Monarch Books, published 2006, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 265

Origin of Yongshou

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 永壽 /永寿 (Yǒngshòu).

Questions about Yongshou

What does Yongshou mean?
Yongshou means a county of Xianyang, Shaanxi, China.
What part of speech is Yongshou?
Yongshou is a proper noun.

Words near Yongshou in the dictionary

  1. Yongqing
  2. Yongs
  3. Yongsan
  4. Yongshan
  5. Yongsheng
  6. Yongshou
  7. Yongshu
  8. Yongshun
  9. Yongtai
  10. yongthe
  11. yongthes

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