Anze

An·ze
A1N1Z10E1
/ˌɑːnˈ(d)zʌ/

proper noun

A county of Linfen, Shanxi, China.

Scrabble 13

Meanings

proper noun
  1. A county of Linfen, Shanxi, China.

    […]success in controlling the big joints disease in An-tse County to the PLA medical teams and to Chairman Mao's revolutionary line on health work.

    [1971, “Local Disease Controlled in An-tse County, Shansi”, in Translations on People's Republic of China, Joint Publications Research Service, →OCLC
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    The most spectacular change is the increase of rainfall in some areas, reaching an average annual of 100-120 mm. Linfen prefecture and Anze county in Shanxi have the most rainfall in the entire region because the afforested area has increased from the pre-Liberation coverage of 3.8 percent to 18 percent of their land area.

    禾光

    1982 November 18 [1982 June 14], He Guang [4421 0342] [禾光], “How Afforestation Has Changed Gansu's Climate”, in Worldwide Report: Environmental Quality, number 377, United States Joint Publications Research Service, sourced from Lanzhou GANSU RIBAO p 4, translation of original in Chinese, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 121

    Firemen extinguish the fire during an explosion at a liquefied petroleum gas station in Anze county of Linfen, north China's Shanxi province November 28, 2006.

    2009 March 31, Rujun Shen, “Wanted: Mayor for accident-prone China coal city”, in Lucy Hornby, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 23 Jun 2022, Lifestyle

Origin

  1. Mandarin安澤 /安泽
  2. EnglishAnze

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 安澤 /安泽.

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Translations

Chinese Cantonese 安澤 /安泽
  • 安澤 /安泽county
Chinese Mandarin 安澤 /安泽
  • 安澤 /安泽county

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