Meanings
- A county of Yuncheng, Shanxi, China.
Rescuers prepare to rescue villagers who are stranded in a flooding river in Yuanqu county, north China's Shanxi province July 30, 2007.
2007 July 31, “China floods put Three Gorges Dam to the test”, in Reuters, archived from the original on 05 Mar 2016, Technology2 more examples
In the fluvial deposits which have developed to the west of the village of T'ungeshanchen in Yuanchu County of Shenhsi^([sic – meaning Shanhsi]) Province, one can find the Nihewan fauna (Axis rugosus, etc.).
[1963 June 24, Chung-chien Yang, “Questions of Neotectonics in the Northern Foothills of the Ch'inling”, in V. N. Pavlinov, editor, Works of the First Conference on Neotectonics in China, →OCLC, page 123After a 10-year fight for compensation, a Hong Kong businessman who says he is owed millions after his company was hijacked by officials in Yuanqu county, Shanxi, has received less than a third of his investment back.
2009 September 13, “HK businessman gets partial payout after 10-year fight over hijacking of Shanxi firm”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 02 Dec 2023
Origin
- Mandarin垣曲
- EnglishYuanqu
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 垣曲.
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Chinese Cantonese 垣曲
- 垣曲county
Chinese Mandarin 垣曲
- 垣曲county
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Yuanqu. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Yuanqu
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