Meanings
- A county-level city of Loudi, Hunan, China.
1 more example
The woman’s husband discovered his wife missing when he went to check on her on Saturday morning, the Hunan province-based news portal Voc.com.cn reported. When he entered the room he found a three-square-metre hole in the floor and his wife, 45-year-old Chen Jiaoyang, gone, the report said. The couple lives in Shizhuling, a village in the city of Lianyuan, which had been hard hit by heavy rains over the previous two days.
2017 June 27, Zhuang Pinghui, “Sleeping woman swallowed by sinkhole in central China after bedroom collapses in heavy rain”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 27 Jun 2017, China society
Origin
- Mandarin漣源 /涟源
- EnglishLianyuan
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 漣源 /涟源 (Liányuán).
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Chinese Cantonese 漣源 /涟源
- 漣源 /涟源 (lin⁴ jyun⁴)county-level city
Chinese Mandarin 漣源 /涟源
- 漣源 /涟源 (Liányuán)county-level city
Cite this entry
Lianyuan. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Lianyuan
“Lianyuan.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Lianyuan. Accessed November 4, 2026.
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