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Ziyun

Syllables: Zi·yun

Ziyun proper noun: a Miao and Buyei autonomous county in Anshun, Guizhou, China.

Proper noun

Ziyun

  1. A Miao and Buyei autonomous county in Anshun, Guizhou, China.
    • Established Tzuyun Miao and Pu-i Autonomous County, and abolished Tzuyun County. The Tzuyun Miao and Pu-i Autonomous County is under the jurisdiction of Anshun Special District.[1966 March 24 [1966 March 22], “Changes of Administrative Divisions Listed”, in Daily Report: Foreign Radio Broadcasts, number 57, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Peking NCNA...
    • Found in southwest China among the karst hills of Ziyun county, in Guizhou, one of the country’s most poverty-stricken provinces, the cave is home to an entire village, all of the Miao ethnic group, leading an agrarian lifestyle controlled by its distinctive light and weather.[…]
    • Determined to develop the cave into a major tourist attraction, the government first built new brick houses beneath the cave for the villagers, then offered to relocate them to the town of Getuhe, and recently suggested moving them to the inner urban area of Ziyun, Liu said.2018 May 14, Mandy Zuo, “China’s last cave tribe resist government attempts to move them on and let the tourists in”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 14 May...

Origin of Ziyun

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 紫雲 /紫云 (Zǐyún).

Questions about Ziyun

What does Ziyun mean?
Ziyun means a Miao and Buyei autonomous county in Anshun, Guizhou, China.
What part of speech is Ziyun?
Ziyun is a proper noun.

Words near Ziyun in the dictionary

  1. ziyara
  2. ziyaras
  3. ziyarat
  4. ziyarats
  5. Ziyuan
  6. Ziyun
  7. ziz
  8. zizaene
  9. zizania
  10. zizanias
  11. zizanoic acid

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