Yongchuan

Yong·chuan
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proper noun

A district of Chongqing, China.

Scrabble 18

Meanings

proper noun

alternative Yungchuan

  1. A district of Chongqing, China.

    I remember on a summer’s day in 1934 when father told me of his personal experiences as the magistrate of Yongchuan, a county west of Chongqing, in 1917.

    1992, Jerome Ch'en, The Highlanders of Central China: A History, 1895-1937, M. E. Sharpe, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 114
    1 more example

    “Don’t simplistically equate ‘nothing has gone wrong’ with ‘nothing will go wrong,’” the local security committee of Yongchuan District in southwest China said last year. “At every moment always act as if we’re walking on thin ice, as if on the edge of an abyss.”

    2022 August 6, Chris Buckley, Steven Lee Myers, Amy Chang Chien, “In Turbulent Times, Xi Builds a Security Fortress for China, and Himself”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 06 Aug 2022, ASIA PACIFIC

Origin

  1. Mandarin永川
  2. EnglishYongchuan

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 永川 (Yǒngchuān).

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Translations

Chinese Mandarin 永川
  • 永川 (Yǒngchuān)district
Japanese 永川
  • 永川district
Cite this entry
APA

Yongchuan. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Yongchuan

MLA

“Yongchuan.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Yongchuan. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Yongchuan,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Yongchuan.

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