Meanings
alternative Lung-ling
- A county of Baoshan, Yunnan, China.
Yet, the Chinese are credited with saving many lives by their accurate prediction of two other severe earthquakes with magnitudes registering 7.5 and 7.6 that struck Lungling County in western Yunnan Province on May 29, 1976.
[1981 August, Frank Don, “Earth Alert: Preparing for Earthquakes”, in Earth Changes Ahead, New York: Destiny Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, pages 141-1421 more example
Programmes of rearing captive peacocks are currently under way in Longling county in west Yunnan province, and other peacocks are being preserved in land set aside in forest near Qinghua in the Dali Bai autonomous prefecture and in the capital Kunming's zoological garden.
2006, Christine E. Jackson, “The Green Peacock in the East”, in Peacock, Reaktion Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, pages 132–134
Origin
- Mandarin龍陵 /龙陵
- EnglishLongling
From Mandarin 龍陵 /龙陵 (Lónglíng).
More words from Mandarin
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Chinese Cantonese 龍陵 /龙陵
- 龍陵 /龙陵county in Yunnan
Chinese Mandarin 龍陵 /龙陵
- 龍陵 /龙陵 (Lónglíng)county in Yunnan
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