Wanrong

Wan·rong
W4A1N1R1O1N1G2

proper noun

A county of Yuncheng, Shanxi, China.

Scrabble 11

Meanings

proper noun

alternative Wanjung

  1. A county of Yuncheng, Shanxi, China.

    Also in November, in Wanrong County, Shanxi Province, in central China, two policemen were killed when enraged construction workers attacked a police station after a traffic dispute.

    2004 December 31, Joseph Kahn, “China's 'Haves' Stir the 'Have Nots' to Violence”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 27 May 2018, Asia Pacific
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    According to the statistics of Wanjung County, of the 34,000 people who had received instruction in reading by October 1958, one-third had again become illiterate, and the other two-thirds were unable even to read newspapers.

    [1966, George P. Jan, “Mass Education in the Chinese Communes”, in George P. Jan, editor, Government of Communist China, San Francisco, Cali.: Chandler Publishing Company, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 511
  2. A mountain indigenous township in Hualien County, Taiwan.

    In Hualien County’s Wanrong Township, a group of six people camping were unable to cross the surging Hongye Stream in their SUVs, and requested assistance from the fire department. Hualien County Fire Department deployed an excavator to cross the stream to rescue the four men and two women.

    2021 October 18, Phillip Charlier, “Disaster-level wind and rain takes Taiwan by surprise as tropical storm passes by without making landfall”, in Taiwan English News, archived from the original on 19 Oct 2021

Origin

  1. Mandarin萬榮 /万荣
  2. EnglishWanrong

From Mandarin 萬榮 /万荣 (Wànróng).

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Translations

Chinese Cantonese 萬榮 /万荣
  • 萬榮 /万荣county; mountain indigenous township
Chinese Mandarin 萬榮 /万荣
  • 萬榮 /万荣 (Wànróng)county; mountain indigenous township
Cite this entry
APA

Wanrong. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Wanrong

MLA

“Wanrong.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Wanrong. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Wanrong,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Wanrong.

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