Weinan

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proper noun

A prefecture-level city of Shaanxi, China.

Scrabble 9

Meanings

proper noun
  1. A prefecture-level city of Shaanxi, China.

    Shuang-wang is situated on the rich loess of the Wei River valley near the city of Weinan in Shensi Province.

    1977, Andrew Watson, Living in China, Totowa, NJ: Littlefield, Adams & Co., →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 66
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    When he assumed his duties as imperial agent, one of those who came to pay him a courtesy visit was Chao Chun-jui, the Moslem merchant from Weinan County in Shensi who had bought a large part of the jade sold by Kao P’u’s predecessor, Ma Hsing-a.

    1977, Preston M. Torbert, The Chʻing Imperial Household Department: a Study of its Organization and Principal Functions, 1662-1796, Harvard University Press, →OCLC, page 146

    Weinan, in the western province of Shaanxi, has found a new way to encourage local districts to improve their performance on a series of development-related goals such as infrastructure projects and tax collection.

    2014 October 24, Austin Ramzy, “In One Chinese City, Underperformers Also Share the Limelight”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 06 Jul 2023, Sinosphere

    A throat swab on a 52-year-old man in Weinan, a city in northern Shaanxi province, showed negative result after the person showed symptoms such as coughing and appetite loss, a city official said on Wednesday, but he tested positive using nose and anal swabs.

    2021 January 27, Roxanne Liu, Ryan Woo, “Chinese cities using anal swabs to screen COVID-19 infections”, in William Maclean, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 27 Jan 2021, Healthcare & Pharma

Origin

  1. Mandarin渭南
  2. EnglishWeinan

From Mandarin 渭南 (Wèinán).

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Translations

Chinese Mandarin 渭南
  • 渭南 (Wèinán)prefecture-level city
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APA

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

MLA

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

Chicago

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

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