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Yuan'an

Syllables: Yuan·an

Yuan'an proper noun: a county of Yichang, Hubei, China.

Proper noun

Yuan'an

  1. A county of Yichang, Hubei, China.
    • 7. The river Chü 沮 rises in Pao-k’ang 保康 county, Hupei, and runs through Yüan-an 遠安 county where it is joined by the Chang 漳.[1967, J. D. Frodsham, “Notes to the Poems”, in The Murmuring Stream: The Life and Works of the Chinese Nature Poet Hsieh Ling-yün (385-433), Duke of K’ang-Lo, volume 2, Kuala Lumpur: University of...
    • In Yuan'an County, Hubei Province, there is a Leizu temple (also named the Temple of the Sericulture Goddess). Since Leizu is said to have been born on March 15 in this county, a temple fair is held on every lunar March 15.2005, Lihui Yang, Deming An, Jessica Anderson Turner, “LEIZU”, in Handbook of Chinese Mythology (Handbooks of World Mythology), ABC-Clio, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 167

Forms of Yuan'an

alternative formYuanan
alternative formYüan-an

Origin of Yuan'an

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 遠安 /远安 (Yuǎn'ān).

Questions about Yuan'an

What does Yuan'an mean?
Yuan'an means a county of Yichang, Hubei, China.
What part of speech is Yuan'an?
Yuan'an is a proper noun.

Words near Yuan'an in the dictionary

  1. YU.
  2. yuan
  3. Yuan dynasty
  4. Yuan River
  5. Yuan Tan
  6. Yuan'an
  7. Yuanan
  8. yuanbao
  9. yuanfuliite
  10. Yuanga
  11. Yuanhui

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