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Yuli

Syllables: Yu·li

Yuli proper noun: an urban township in Hualien County, Taiwan.

Proper noun (1)

Yuli

  1. An urban township in Hualien County, Taiwan.
    • Sunday's quakes damaged the east coast railroad at seven places in the 75-mile stretch between Hualien and Taitung.
      Hualien, hard hit by quakes that killed about 100 persons Oct. 22 and 23, suffered no casualties Sunday.
      The rail towns of Yuli and Fuli 50 and 60 miles south, bore the bunt of the...1951 November 26, “15 Killed, Over 200 Hurt In Latest Formosa Quakes”, in Victoria Daily Times, volume 118, number 279, Victoria, B.C., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 6, columns 6, 7
    • Construction will begin in July 1978 from Hsinyi in Nantou county on the west side and in 1979 from Yuli in Hualien county on the east side.1976 August 22, “New highway across island to be built in '78”, in 自由中國週報 [Free China Weekly], volume XVII, number 33, Taipei, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 4, column 1

Proper noun (2)

Yuli

  1. A county of Bayingolin prefecture, Xinjiang autonomous region, China.
    • For example, during the reign of Han Cho Ti (86-74 B.C.) there were more than 500,000 mows of irrigated farmlands around Luntai (Lun-dai) and Yuli (Werli) cities in the lower reaches of the Tarim River.[...]Thus, the ancient extensive farmlands around Luntai and Yuli have now been all turned into...1984, Farouk El-Baz, editor, Deserts and Arid Lands, Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 109
    • A 1987 study listed 25,000 speakers of the Lop Nur Uygur language in the eastern part of the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region.¹ They live near Lop Nur Lake, in a widespread area which includes Yuli County and Miran Township of Ruogiang County.2000, Paul Hattaway, Operation China: Introducing all the Pooples of China, Piquant, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 529
  2. A town in Yuli, Bayingolin prefecture, Xinjiang autonomous region, China.
    Synonyms:
    Wei-li

Examples of Yuli in a sentence

  • They extended the clinics to two nearby towns, Yuli and Taitung.2010, Mark O'Neill, “Beginnings”, in Tzu Chi: Serving with Compassion, John Wiley & Sons (Asia) Pte. Ltd., →ISBN, →OCLC, page 22:
  • For example, in the Yuli County (located in the lower reach of the Tarim River) the days of sandstorms were 108 days in the 1970s, which was about two times of that in the 1960s.2007, Chen Yaning et al., “Ecological impacts of water resources utilization in the Tarim River Basin of China”, in Changes in Water...

Synonyms of Yuli

  • Wei-li

Forms of Yuli

alternative formYü-li

Origin of Yuli

Borrowed from Mandarin 玉里 (Yùlǐ).

Borrowed from Mandarin 尉犁 (Yùlí).

Questions about Yuli

What does Yuli mean?
Yuli means an urban township in Hualien County, Taiwan.
How do you use Yuli in a sentence?
They extended the clinics to two nearby towns, Yuli and Taitung.
What part of speech is Yuli?
Yuli is a proper noun.

Words near Yuli in the dictionary

  1. Yules
  2. yuletide
  3. yuletides
  4. Yuletree
  5. Yulgyal
  6. Yuli
  7. Yulia
  8. Yulin
  9. Yullundry
  10. yulo
  11. yuloh

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