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Meichuan
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English
Alternative forms
en Mei-ch'uan Wade-Giles
Etymology
From en cmn 梅川.
Pronunciation
mā′chwän′
en Mei chuan
Proper noun
en town county-level city/Wuxue prefecture-level city/Huanggang p/Hubei c/China.
en 2008 w:Leslie T. Chang Leslie_T._Chang#Factory_Girls Factory Girls: From Village to City in a Changing China https://archive.org/details/factorygirlsfrom00chan_0/ New York w:Spiegel & Grau 978-0-385-52017-1 2008012880 963510224 16701627M 277 https://archive.org/details/factorygirlsfrom00chan_0/page/277/ AT 10:12, the bus crossed the Yangtze River, and Min jerked awake. She said aloud the name of every town we passed on the highway: Huangshi, Meichuan, Huangmei. “We’re almost there,” she said, her voice tight with excitement.
en 29 July 2016 Natalie Mu Boy, 2, dies of heatstroke in central China mountains while looking for his grandmother https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/1996483/boy-2-dies-heatstroke-central-china-mountains-while-looking-his https://web.archive.org/web/20220509144724/https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/1996483/boy-2-dies-heatstroke-central-china-mountains-while-looking-his 09 May 2022 w:South China Morning Post The unattended boy was found missing when his grandmother returned to their home in Meichuan town in the city of Wuxue after working in the fields, having told the boy an hour before to stay at home and watch television, the ChuTian Metropolis Daily reported.
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Translations
county-level city
Chinese:
Mandarin: cmn 梅川 Méichuān
Japanese: ja
Further reading
en 1998 Meichuan Saul B. Cohen The Columbia Gazetteer of the World https://archive.org/details/columbiagazettee02cohe/ 2 New York Columbia University Press 0-231-11040-5 98-071262 164337564 1942 https://archive.org/details/columbiagazettee02cohe/page/1942/ 3
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