Meanings
- A district of Zhangjiakou, Hebei, China, formerly a county.
In his surveys of northern Hebei, Willem Grootaers found an average of 6.8 temples per village in Wanquan County and 4.5 per village in neighboring Xuanhua.
2005, Thomas David DuBois, The Sacred Village: Social Change and Religious Life in Rural North China, Honolulu: University of Hawaiʻi Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 492 more examples
According to the paintings, the tomb’s owner had been an unimportant official attending the emperor; previously, he had been a Duwei (officer in charge of a prefecture’s troops), Changshi (assistant prefect) and magistrate. His highest rank was Shishijie Huwuhuan Xiaowei (an official in charge of the affairs of Wuhuan, Xianbei and other nationalities living along the Great Wall). His office was situated in Ningcheng, or today’s Wanquan County, Hebei Province.
长城的故事
1997, Wenyuan Liu, “Cultural Relics of Great Wall”, in Tales of the Great Wall [长城的故事], Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, pages 78–79Gujiagou is a small hamlet in Wanquan County in Zhangjiakou, Hebei Province. Hao, born in the village in 1981, lived there until he was admitted to the Beijing Film Academy in 2001.
2011 November 4, Dongya Zhang, “Sexual struggle in the countryside”, in Beijing Today, number 543, →OCLC, page 19
Origin
- Mandarin萬全 /万全
- EnglishWanquan
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 萬全 /万全 (Wànquán).
More words from Mandarin
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Chinese Mandarin 萬全 /万全
- 萬全 /万全 (Wànquán)district
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Wanquan. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Wanquan
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