See Xinjiang in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"word": "шинҷон"
},
{
"code": "sjo",
"lang": "Sibe",
"roman": "sinjiyang",
"sense": "Uyghur autonomous region of China",
"word": "ᠰᡞᠨᡪᡞᠶᠠᡢ"
},
{
"code": "es",
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"sense": "Uyghur autonomous region of China",
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],
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},
{
"code": "es",
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],
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},
{
"code": "sv",
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],
"word": "Xinjiang"
},
{
"code": "sv",
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"tags": [
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],
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},
{
"code": "tg",
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"sense": "Uyghur autonomous region of China",
"word": "Шинҷон"
},
{
"code": "tg",
"lang": "Tajik",
"roman": "Šinjong",
"sense": "Uyghur autonomous region of China",
"word": "Шинҷонг"
},
{
"code": "th",
"lang": "Thai",
"roman": "sin-jiiang",
"sense": "Uyghur autonomous region of China",
"word": "ซินเจียง"
},
{
"code": "bo",
"english": "shin cang",
"lang": "Tibetan",
"sense": "Uyghur autonomous region of China",
"word": "ཤིན་ཅང"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "Uyghur autonomous region of China",
"word": "Sincan"
},
{
"code": "tk",
"lang": "Turkmen",
"sense": "Uyghur autonomous region of China",
"word": "Hinjiýan"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "Sinʹczján",
"sense": "Uyghur autonomous region of China",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Сіньцзя́н"
},
{
"code": "ug",
"lang": "Uyghur",
"roman": "shinjang",
"sense": "Uyghur autonomous region of China",
"word": "شىنجاڭ"
},
{
"code": "uz",
"lang": "Uzbek",
"sense": "Uyghur autonomous region of China",
"word": "Shinjong"
},
{
"code": "uz",
"lang": "Uzbek",
"sense": "Uyghur autonomous region of China",
"word": "Sinszyan"
},
{
"alt": "新疆",
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "Uyghur autonomous region of China",
"word": "Tân Cương"
},
{
"code": "xwo",
"lang": "Written Oirat",
"roman": "šinǰiyang",
"sense": "Uyghur autonomous region of China",
"word": "ᠱᡅᠨᡓᡅᡕᠠᡊ"
},
{
"code": "sjo",
"lang": "Xibe",
"roman": "sinjiyang",
"sense": "Uyghur autonomous region of China",
"word": "ᠰᡞ᠌ᠨ᠋ᡪᡞ᠌ᠶᠠᡢ"
},
{
"code": "yai",
"lang": "Yagnobi",
"roman": "Šinjong",
"sense": "Uyghur autonomous region of China",
"word": "Шинҷонг"
},
{
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"sense": "Uyghur autonomous region of China",
"word": "Шинҷон"
},
{
"code": "za",
"lang": "Zhuang",
"sense": "Uyghur autonomous region of China",
"word": "Sinhgyangh"
}
],
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"Xinjiang"
],
"word": "Xinjiang"
}
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"English terms borrowed from Mandarin",
"English terms derived from Hanyu Pinyin",
"English terms derived from Mandarin",
"English uncountable nouns",
"Entries with translation boxes",
"Pages with 3 entries",
"Pages with entries",
"Terms with Mandarin translations",
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"args": {
"1": "Xinjiang County"
},
"expansion": "",
"name": "commonscat"
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"1": "新絳"
},
"expansion": "新絳／新绛 (Xīnjiàng)",
"name": "zh-l"
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],
"etymology_text": "From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 新絳／新绛 (Xīnjiàng).",
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"en:Places in China",
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{
"ref": "2010 September 3, He Jianwei, “Beats of the land: Artist's persistence saves ethnic heritage”, in Beijing Today, number 482, →ISSN, →OCLC, pages 12–13, columns 3-1:",
"text": "Drumming in Shanxi Province can be dated back centuries earlier to Xinjiang County, the ancient name of Jiangzhou, in present-day Shanxi Province.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2015, Guoguang Wu, Helen Lansdowne, China's Transition from Communism - New Perspectives, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC:",
"text": "In September 2009, Xinjiang County in Yuncheng Municipality, Shanxi Province started to put village administrative information online for farmers to access.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
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"A county of Yuncheng, Shanxi, China."
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],
[
"Shanxi",
"Shanxi#English"
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]
]
}
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{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "county",
"word": "新絳"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "Xīnjiàng",
"sense": "county",
"word": "新绛"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"Defense Mapping Agency",
"Xinjiang"
],
"word": "Xinjiang"
}
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