Liaoyuan
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English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Mandarin 遼源／辽源 (Liáoyuán).
Proper noun
Liaoyuan
- A prefecture-level city in Jilin, China.
- 2009 March 24, Michael Wines, “China Daily Assails Prisoner Abuses”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 09 April 2009, Asia Pacific:
- During its meeting this month, the party-controlled legislature, the National People’s Congress, established a committee to investigate the centers. It recently conducted surprise inspections in Liaoyuan, a city in Jilin Province, the newspaper reported.
- 2015, Michael Meyer, “Quid Pro Quo”, in In Manchuria: A Village Called Wasteland and the Transformation of Rural China, Bloomsbury Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 21:
- They waited on the platform as our overnight train pulled into Liaoyuan, a small (by Chinese standards) Northeastern city of one million people. They were my first impression of Manchuria, and I liked them immediately.
Translations
prefecture-level city
Further reading
- Liaoyuan in Encyclopædia Britannica
- “Liaoyuan”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
- “Liaoyuan”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
- “Liaoyuan” in TheFreeDictionary.com, Huntingdon Valley, Pa.: Farlex, Inc., 2003–2024.
- Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Liaoyuan”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World, volume 2, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1729, column 2