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Yun-nan

Yun-nan is the alternative form of Yunnan.

Meaning of Yunnan

Proper noun

Yunnan

  1. A province in southwestern China, bordering Myanmar (Burma), Laos and Vietnam. Capital: Kunming.
    • Beſide theſe in the Province of Yunnan, which is very large, lying towards the South, in the latitude of 24 degrees, there is a great Countrie inhabited by a particular people, who uſe another language and other cuſtomes. They have a little King called by the Chineſſes, Thu Quon, a Mandarine of...1655, F. Alvarez Semedo, “Of the Moores, Jewes, and other Nations, that are in China”, in The History of That Great and Renowned Monarchy of China, E. Tyler, →OCLC, page 152

Origin of Yun-nan

From the Wade-Giles romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 雲南／云南 (Yúnnán). Wade-Giles romanization: Yün²-nan².

Questions about Yun-nan

What is Yun-nan the alternative form of?
Yun-nan is the alternative form of Yunnan.

Words near Yun-nan in the dictionary

  1. Yumurtalık
  2. Yun
  3. Yun Ling
  4. Yun-lin
  5. Yun-ling
  6. Yun-nan
  7. Yuna
  8. yunaconitine
  9. Yunan
  10. Yunani
  11. yunc

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Yun-nan (page history and authors); Yunnan (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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