Meanings
- A prefecture-level city of Guizhou, China.
The police in Anshun, a city in Guizhou Province, said in a statement on Sunday that the 52-year-old driver, identified only by his last name, Zhang, had been aggrieved over the demolition of his home that morning.
2020 July 13, Tiffany May, “Driver Purposely Drove Bus Into China Reservoir, Killing 21, Police Say”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 13 Jul 20201 more example
In 1904, a group of Miao arrived in the city of Zhaotong seeking a Methodist missionary named Samuel Pollard, to whom they had been directed by a Mr Adam of the China Inland Mission at An-shun, who later translated the New Testament into a romanized version of Hmong.
[1989, Nicholas Tapp, “The Religious Dilemma”, in Sovereignty and Rebellion: The White Hmong of Northern Thailand, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 91
Origin
- Mandarin安順 /安顺
- EnglishAnshun
From Mandarin 安順 /安顺 (Ānshùn).
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Chinese Cantonese 安順 /安顺
- 安順 /安顺 (on¹ seon⁶)prefecture-level city
Chinese Mandarin 安順 /安顺
- 安順 /安顺 (Ānshùn)prefecture-level city
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Anshun. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Anshun
“Anshun.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Anshun. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Anshun,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Anshun.
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