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Zhidan

Syllables: Zhi·dan

Zhidan proper noun: a county of Yan'an, Shaanxi, China.

Proper noun

Zhidan

  1. A county of Yan'an, Shaanxi, China.
    • Pao-an was a county in the northwestern part of Shensi Province. It is now called Chihtan County. The Central Committee of the Communist Party of China had its headquarters there from early July 1936 to January 1937. Later it moved to Yenan.[1961, Selected Works of Mao Tse-tung, volume IV, Foreign Languages Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 25
    • With so many able-bodied men and women fighting in guerrilla units, old women and children had to work. For example, in “Chih-tan county of district one, a 52 year old woman in Ts’ai-she-p’ing village had reclaimed about two acres of land within only one month.”[1978 July, Ramon H. Myers, “Peter Schran. Guerrilla Economy: The Development of the Shensi-Kansu-Ninghsia Border Region, 1937–1945. […]”, in Economic Development and Cultural Change, volume 26...

Origin of Zhidan

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 志丹 (Zhìdān, literally “Zhidan, name of 劉志丹 (Liu Zhidan)”).

Questions about Zhidan

What does Zhidan mean?
Zhidan means a county of Yan'an, Shaanxi, China.
What part of speech is Zhidan?
Zhidan is a proper noun.

Words near Zhidan in the dictionary

  1. Zhezkazgan
  2. zhi cha
  3. zhi char
  4. Zhiben
  5. Zhicheng
  6. Zhidan
  7. Zhidoi
  8. Zhifu
  9. Zhihu
  10. Zhijiang
  11. Zhijin

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