Meanings
- A town in Yengisar, Kashgar prefecture, Xinjiang autonomous region, China, formerly a township.
Yusupjan, a security worker in Yengisar county’s Saghan village, said his sister’s friend may have been terrified and made up the story in order to save herself from further questioning.
2017 September 19, Shohret Hoshur, Richard Finney, “Uyghur Woman Handed 10-Year Prison Term Over Headscarf Claim”, in Radio Free Asia, archived from the original on 20 Sep 20172 more examples
As a rule, those coming from Atush, Kashgar city, and surrounding areas first stopped to pray at the Häzriti Begim Mazar in Yengisar's Saghan village before continuing on the Ordam (Fig. 3).
2016, Kashgar Revisited: Uyghur Studies in Memory of Ambassador Gunnar Jarring, →ISBN, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 238An officer at the Saghan township police station told RFA that at least one other policeman from the township, who had been promoted and served for the last five years as an assistant officer patrolling China’s border, was fired after his relatives were arrested for “extremism.”
2017 November 6, Shohret Hoshur, Joshua Lipes, “Families of Uyghur Police Officers Among Those Detained in Xinjiang’s Kashgar”, in Radio Free Asia, archived from the original on 02 Feb 2018
Origin
- Uyghurساغان
- EnglishSaghan
From Uyghur ساغان (saghan).
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Chinese Mandarin 薩罕 /萨罕
- 薩罕 /萨罕 (Sàhǎn)town in Yengisar, Kashgar, Xinjiang
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Saghan. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Saghan
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