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Yuanping

Syllables: Yuan·ping

Yuanping proper noun: a county-level city of Xinzhou, Shanxi, China.

Proper noun

Yuanping

  1. A county-level city of Xinzhou, Shanxi, China.
    • Recognition of the heroic stand made last month by the late Major-General Chiang Yu-chen, a Brigadier Commander defending Yuanping, 87 miles north of Taiyuan, the Shansi provincial capital, was given by the Executive Yuan, Nov. 9.1937 November 20, “Deputy Brigade Commander Li Tsung Dies of Battle Wounds”, in The China Weekly Review, volume 82, number 12, →OCLC, page 284
    • The tall, pleasant young mayor of Yuanping county seat in Shansi told Rittenberg, when the latter arrived in that city: “We'll soon be pulling out of town, for Yen's troops are coming to attack and our army is too far away.”
    • [...]The mayor did not seem much concerned. “Just as we did with the Japs,” he replied. “We'll stay a week or two with the peasants till our troops can come and take Yuanping again.” He proved an accurate prophet. Yuanping was lost and retaken within three weeks. It suffered some looting, but its...1949, Anna Louise Strong, The Chinese Conquer China, Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, →OCLC, →OL, page 214

Examples of Yuanping in a sentence

  • These ferries are located in the middle and upper reaches of the Juma River, over 100km to the southwest of Beijing, in an area through which the railway leading to Yuanping, Shanxi Province passes.1990, Tourist Atlas of Beijing, Beijing: Science Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 29, column 1:
  • The hospital was for employees of the Xuangang Coal and Electricity Company in Yuanping.2006 April 12, “World Briefing: Asia, Europe and Africa”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 27 Jan 2023...
  • The 43-year-old farmer from Yuanping, Shanxi, was wanted over the killing of two women and the attempted kidnapping of another in his hometown in June, 1996.2014 December 28, Mandy Zuo, “Exploding electric hot-water bottle maims woman”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from...

Origin of Yuanping

From Mandarin 原平 (Yuánpíng).

Questions about Yuanping

What does Yuanping mean?
Yuanping means a county-level city of Xinzhou, Shanxi, China.
How do you use Yuanping in a sentence?
These ferries are located in the middle and upper reaches of the Juma River, over 100km to the southwest of Beijing, in an area through which the railway leading to Yuanping, Shanxi Province passes.
What part of speech is Yuanping?
Yuanping is a proper noun.

Words near Yuanping in the dictionary

  1. Yuanhui
  2. Yuanjiang
  3. yuanjiangite
  4. Yuanli
  5. Yuanlin
  6. Yuanping
  7. Yuanqu
  8. yuans
  9. Yuanshan
  10. yuanyang
  11. yuanyang hudie

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