Liaoyuan

Liao·yuan
L1I1A1O1Y4U1A1N1

proper noun

A prefecture-level city of Jilin, China.

Scrabble 11

Meanings

proper noun

alternative Liao-yüan

  1. 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 21
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    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

  1. Mandarin遼源 /辽源
  2. EnglishLiaoyuan

From Mandarin 遼源 /辽源 (Liáoyuán).

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Translations

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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APA

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Chicago

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