Meanings
alternative Liao-yüan
- A prefecture-level city of Jilin, China.
They waited on the platform as our overnight train pulled into Liaoyuan, a small (by Chinese standards) Northeastern city of one million people. They were my first impression of Manchuria, and I liked them immediately.
2015, Michael Meyer, “Quid Pro Quo”, in In Manchuria: A Village Called Wasteland and the Transformation of Rural China, Bloomsbury Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 211 more example
A barber shop in Liaoyuan, Kirin Province, Northeast China, is described by workers, peasants and soldiers as close to their hearts. Changes in this barber shop show the tranformation^([sic – meaning transformation]) in China's service trades as a result of tempering in the great proletarian cultural revolution launched more than two years ago.
1969 April 23 [1969 April 22], “Kirin Barbershop Serves Peasants, Workers”, in Daily Report: Communist China, volume I, number 78, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Peking NCNA International Service, →OCLC, Communist China: Northeast Region, page G 2
Origin
- Mandarin遼源 /辽源
- EnglishLiaoyuan
From Mandarin 遼源 /辽源 (Liáoyuán).
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Chinese Cantonese 遼源 /辽源
- 遼源 /辽源 (liu⁴ jyun⁴)prefecture-level city
Chinese Mandarin 遼源 /辽源
- 遼源 /辽源 (Liáoyuán)prefecture-level city
Polish Liaoyuan
- Liaoyuanprefecture-level city
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