Moukden

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A form of Mukden — Shenyang, in Liaoning province, China.

Scrabble 14

Meanings

proper noun
  1. alternativeAlternative form of Mukden (“Shenyang”).

    Soon the plague broke out in Moukden, and the worst was feared. It is the capital of Manchuria, with a population of over three hundred thousand. From January 2nd to the 12th fifteen deaths were reported in Moukden, and the strictest measures were at once taken.

    1928, Archer Wallace, “The Doctor Who Stopped a Plague”, in Blazing New Trails, Toronto: The Musson Book Company, →OCLC, pages 62–63
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    The hostility became audible enough in the new chapel in Moukden. A number of clever graduates and undergraduates, residing in the city for examinations, combined to go to the chapel daily with questions and problems carefully prepared to confuse and annoy the foreigner.

    1903, John Ross, Mission Methods in Manchuria, Oliphant Anderson & Ferrier, →OCLC, page 63

    Pushed down parallel to the Hun River in a V-shape, the Third Russian Army was many miles to the south of the Russian centre which rested on the Fushan coal-mines, fifteen miles to the northeast of Moukden. Whilst the Russian retreat was in full progress, one of those terrible Manchurian dust-storms, which make movement more impossible than the densest London fog, caused the Russians to halt for several hours groping helplessly about.

    1905, B. L. Putnam Weale, The Re-shaping of The Far East, volume II, The Macmillan Company, page 179

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Origin

  1. mncᠮᡠᡴ᠋ᡩᡝᠨ“Shenyang”
  2. EnglishMoukden

Borrowed from Manchu ᠮᡠᡴ᠋ᡩᡝᠨ (mukden, “Shenyang”).

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