"Yunnan" meaning in English

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Proper name

IPA: /juː(n)ˈnɑːn/, /jʊ(n)ˈnɑːn/
enPR: yo͞onǎnʹ<ref name="seltzer"><span class="citation-whole"><span class="cited-source">Leon E. Seltzer, editor (<span class="None" lang="und">1952</span>), “Yunnan, Yünnan, or Yün-nan”, in <cite>The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World</cite>&lrm;<sup>[https://archive.org/details/columbialippinco00selt/]</sup>, Morningside Heights, NY&#58; [[:w&#x3A;Columbia University Press|Columbia University Press]], <small>[https://www.worldcat.org/title/802473294 →OCLC]</small>, [https://archive.org/details/columbialippinco00selt/page/2131/ page <span class="None" lang="und">2131</span>], column 3</span></span></ref> Etymology: From Mandarin 雲南/云南 (Yúnnán). Etymology templates: {{der|en|cmn|雲南}} Mandarin 雲南/云南 (Yúnnán) Head templates: {{en-proper noun}} Yunnan
  1. A province in southwestern China, bordering Myanmar (Burma), Laos and Vietnam. Capital: Kunming Wikipedia link: Yunnan Categories (place): Places in China, Provinces of China, Yunnan Synonyms: Yünnan, Yun-nan, Yün-nan (alt: Wade–Giles), Junnan [obsolete], Yunan [misspelling] Derived forms: yunnanozoan Related terms (Autonomous regions): Guangxi · Inner Mongolia · Ningxia · Tibet Autonomous Region · Xinjiang Related terms (Municipalities): Beijing · Tianjin · Shanghai · Chongqing Related terms (Provinces): Anhui · Fujian · Guangdong · Gansu · Guizhou · Henan · Hubei · Hebei · Hainan · Heilongjiang · Hunan · Jilin · Jiangsu · Jiangxi · Liaoning · Qinghai · Sichuan · Shandong · Shaanxi · Shanxi · Taiwan · Yunnan · Zhejiang (english: claimed) Related terms (Special administrative regions): Hong Kong · Macau Translations (a province in China): يُنَّان (yunnān) (Arabic), Յուննան [Yunnan] (Armenian), Yinfnanf (Bouyei), ယူနန်ပြည်နယ် (yunanpranynai) (Burmese), 雲南 [Hokkien] (Chinese), 云南 (Hûn-lâm) [Hokkien] (Chinese), 雲南 (Chinese Cantonese), 云南 (wan⁴ naam⁴) (Chinese Cantonese), 雲南 (Chinese Mandarin), 云南 (Yúnnán) (Chinese Mandarin), Jün-nan (Czech), Yunnan (Finnish), Yunnan (French), იუნნანი (iunnani) (Georgian), Γιουνάν (Giounán) (Greek), 雲南 (Hakka Chinese), 云南 (Yùn-nàm) (Hakka Chinese), युन्नान (yunnān) [masculine] (Hindi), Jünnan (Hungarian), 雲南 (Unnan) (alt: うんなん) (Japanese), 윈난 (Winnan) (Korean), 운남 (unnam) (Korean), ຢຸນນານ (yun nān) (Lao), Juņnaņa (Latvian), Junanas (Lithuanian), ᦍᦲᧃᧉᦓᦱᧃᧉ (yiin²naan²) (), ᦍᦲᧃᧉᦓᦱᧃᧉᦵᦌᦲᧃ (yiin²naan²soen) (), Ју́нан (Júnan) (Macedonian), ᠶᡡᠨᠨᠠᠨ (yūnnan) (Manchu), ᡡᠨ ᠨᠠᠨ (ūn nan) (Manchu), युन्नान (yunnān) (Marathi), Юньнань (Junʹnanʹ) (Mongolian), Yunnan [masculine] (Portuguese), Iunã [masculine] (Portuguese), Юньна́нь (Junʹnánʹ) [masculine] (Russian), Yunnan (Spanish), Yunnan [neuter] (Swedish), มณฑลยูนนาน (monton yoonnaan) (Thai), ཡུན་ནན་ཞིང་ཆེན (yun nan zhing chen) (Tibetan), Vân Nam (Vietnamese), Yinznanz (Zhuang)

Alternative forms

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          "ref": "1973 February 18, “Maoists control Phong Saly”, in Free China Weekly, volume XIV, number 6, Taipei, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 3",
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        "en:Yunnan"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1701, Joan Luyts, Herman Moll, A System of Geography, Part the Second, London, →OCLC, page 48",
          "text": "On the South of this Province appears that of Junnang or Yunnan, divided into twelve Parts, whoſe chief Cities are, Yunnan the Capital of the whole Province ; Lingan ; Chinchian ; Cuivag ; Quanſi ; Juenkiam ; Chinyuen ; Xunnim ; Mumhoa ; Tali ; Chimtien ; Jummim : This Province is one of the richeſt, being ſtored with the beſt Metals, precious Stones, Musk and Silk ; and hath ſeventy five other Cities.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1908, Reginald Fleming Johnston, From Peking to Mandalay, John Murray, page 157",
          "text": "I did not meet a single Chinese between Chê-to and Li-chiang in Yunnan¹- a journey that occupied about a month- and the Chinese language was entirely unknown.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1949, Chen Han-seng, Frontier Land Systems in Southernmost China, Institute of Pacific Relations, pages 1-2",
          "text": "Just as the Miao and the Yao had been pressed into Indo-China, the Yi were pushed out of the more eastern provinces of China by the slow advance of the Chinese. In Yunnan the Yi have moved generally toward the south. Up to the time of Mongol conquest in western Yunnan, the Yi had concentrated their population in Tali and Yungchang (now Pao-shan), (4) but today there are very few Yi living in these two districts. The most concentrated Yi population is to be fond in southernmost parts of Yunnan, the region inhabited by the Pai Yi.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1973 February 18, “Maoists control Phong Saly”, in Free China Weekly, volume XIV, number 6, Taipei, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 3",
          "text": "There are huge arsenals, magazines and armories in Phong Saly, all operated by the Chinese Communists.\nOver 200 trucks are shuttling between Phong Saly and Mengla, in southern Yunnan, to replenish the supply, the report said.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1977, K. P. Wang, Mineral Resources and Basic Industries in the People's Republic of China, Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, page 189",
          "text": "In the Hsinhsiang District of Yunnan, twenty-odd plants produced a total of about 200,000 tons of chemical phosphates in 1973.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2016 May 31, Zach Montague, “‘Unexplored’ China? Not for Long, the Way These Climbers Are Going”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2016-06-02, Sports",
          "text": "Michael Dobie moved to Liming in September 2010 with two friends who discovered the Chinese village in a travel brochure. Crisscrossed by dirt roads, the rustic setting in the mountains of Yunnan province offered few amenities.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2021 August 11, “Elephants roaming China for months return to ‘suitable’ habitat”, in EFE, archived from the original on 2021-08-11",
          "text": "Wild elephants that had been roaming the southern Chinese province of Yunnan for more than three months returned to a \"more appropriate\" habitat, Chinese experts told state media.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2022 August 23, Lyric Li, “Climate change in China hikes price of rare mushroom, a delicacy in Asia”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-08-23, Asia",
          "text": "Mushroom traders expected matsutake prices to start dropping around late August, when large quantities of lesser-quality mushrooms hit the market. But this has not happened. Instead, some production bases in Yunnan — the southwestern Chinese province that makes up a third of China’s matsutake output and about 70 percent of exports — have seen the harvest drop by up to 90 percent this year, local officials told the Chinese financial outlet Caixin.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2022 September 8, Didi Tang, “China declares two species of gibbon extinct”, in The Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-09-08",
          "text": "Deforestation for corn growing in the 1950s and 1960s has been blamed for the disappearance of the white-handed gibbon in the southwestern province of Yunnan. Their cries were last heard in the 1970s, according to state media.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A province in southwestern China, bordering Myanmar (Burma), Laos and Vietnam. Capital: Kunming"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "province",
          "province"
        ],
        [
          "China",
          "China#English"
        ],
        [
          "Myanmar",
          "Myanmar"
        ],
        [
          "Burma",
          "Burma"
        ],
        [
          "Laos",
          "Laos"
        ],
        [
          "Vietnam",
          "Vietnam"
        ],
        [
          "Kunming",
          "Kunming#English"
        ]
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "Yunnan"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/juː(n)ˈnɑːn/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/jʊ(n)ˈnɑːn/"
    },
    {
      "enpr": "yo͞onǎnʹ<ref name=\"seltzer\"><span class=\"citation-whole\"><span class=\"cited-source\">Leon E. Seltzer, editor (<span class=\"None\" lang=\"und\">1952</span>), “Yunnan, Yünnan, or Yün-nan”, in <cite>The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World</cite>&lrm;<sup>[https://archive.org/details/columbialippinco00selt/]</sup>, Morningside Heights, NY&#58; [[:w&#x3A;Columbia University Press|Columbia University Press]], <small>[https://www.worldcat.org/title/802473294 →OCLC]</small>, [https://archive.org/details/columbialippinco00selt/page/2131/ page <span class=\"None\" lang=\"und\">2131</span>], column 3</span></span></ref>"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "Yünnan"
    },
    {
      "word": "Yun-nan"
    },
    {
      "alt": "Wade–Giles",
      "word": "Yün-nan"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "obsolete"
      ],
      "word": "Junnan"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "misspelling"
      ],
      "word": "Yunan"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "ar",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "roman": "yunnān",
      "sense": "a province in China",
      "word": "يُنَّان"
    },
    {
      "code": "hy",
      "lang": "Armenian",
      "sense": "a province in China",
      "tags": [
        "Yunnan"
      ],
      "word": "Յուննան"
    },
    {
      "code": "pcc",
      "lang": "Bouyei",
      "sense": "a province in China",
      "word": "Yinfnanf"
    },
    {
      "code": "my",
      "lang": "Burmese",
      "roman": "yunanpranynai",
      "sense": "a province in China",
      "word": "ယူနန်ပြည်နယ်"
    },
    {
      "code": "yue",
      "lang": "Chinese Cantonese",
      "sense": "a province in China",
      "word": "雲南"
    },
    {
      "code": "yue",
      "lang": "Chinese Cantonese",
      "roman": "wan⁴ naam⁴",
      "sense": "a province in China",
      "word": "云南"
    },
    {
      "code": "hak",
      "lang": "Hakka Chinese",
      "sense": "a province in China",
      "word": "雲南"
    },
    {
      "code": "hak",
      "lang": "Hakka Chinese",
      "roman": "Yùn-nàm",
      "sense": "a province in China",
      "word": "云南"
    },
    {
      "code": "nan-hbl",
      "lang": "Chinese",
      "sense": "a province in China",
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien"
      ],
      "word": "雲南"
    },
    {
      "code": "nan-hbl",
      "lang": "Chinese",
      "roman": "Hûn-lâm",
      "sense": "a province in China",
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien"
      ],
      "word": "云南"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "a province in China",
      "word": "雲南"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "Yúnnán",
      "sense": "a province in China",
      "word": "云南"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "a province in China",
      "word": "Jün-nan"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "a province in China",
      "word": "Yunnan"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "a province in China",
      "word": "Yunnan"
    },
    {
      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
      "roman": "iunnani",
      "sense": "a province in China",
      "word": "იუნნანი"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "Giounán",
      "sense": "a province in China",
      "word": "Γιουνάν"
    },
    {
      "code": "hi",
      "lang": "Hindi",
      "roman": "yunnān",
      "sense": "a province in China",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "युन्नान"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "a province in China",
      "word": "Jünnan"
    },
    {
      "alt": "うんなん",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "Unnan",
      "sense": "a province in China",
      "word": "雲南"
    },
    {
      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "Winnan",
      "sense": "a province in China",
      "word": "윈난"
    },
    {
      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "unnam",
      "sense": "a province in China",
      "word": "운남"
    },
    {
      "code": "lo",
      "lang": "Lao",
      "roman": "yun nān",
      "sense": "a province in China",
      "word": "ຢຸນນານ"
    },
    {
      "code": "lv",
      "lang": "Latvian",
      "sense": "a province in China",
      "word": "Juņnaņa"
    },
    {
      "code": "lt",
      "lang": "Lithuanian",
      "sense": "a province in China",
      "word": "Junanas"
    },
    {
      "code": "khb",
      "lang": "Lü",
      "roman": "yiin²naan²",
      "sense": "a province in China",
      "word": "ᦍᦲᧃᧉᦓᦱᧃᧉ"
    },
    {
      "code": "khb",
      "lang": "Lü",
      "roman": "yiin²naan²soen",
      "sense": "a province in China",
      "word": "ᦍᦲᧃᧉᦓᦱᧃᧉᦵᦌᦲᧃ"
    },
    {
      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "Júnan",
      "sense": "a province in China",
      "word": "Ју́нан"
    },
    {
      "code": "mnc",
      "lang": "Manchu",
      "roman": "yūnnan",
      "sense": "a province in China",
      "word": "ᠶᡡᠨᠨᠠᠨ"
    },
    {
      "code": "mnc",
      "lang": "Manchu",
      "roman": "ūn nan",
      "sense": "a province in China",
      "word": "ᡡᠨ ᠨᠠᠨ"
    },
    {
      "code": "mr",
      "lang": "Marathi",
      "roman": "yunnān",
      "sense": "a province in China",
      "word": "युन्नान"
    },
    {
      "code": "mn",
      "lang": "Mongolian",
      "roman": "Junʹnanʹ",
      "sense": "a province in China",
      "word": "Юньнань"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "a province in China",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Yunnan"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "a province in China",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Iunã"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "Junʹnánʹ",
      "sense": "a province in China",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Юньна́нь"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "a province in China",
      "word": "Yunnan"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "a province in China",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "Yunnan"
    },
    {
      "code": "th",
      "lang": "Thai",
      "roman": "monton yoonnaan",
      "sense": "a province in China",
      "word": "มณฑลยูนนาน"
    },
    {
      "code": "bo",
      "lang": "Tibetan",
      "roman": "yun nan zhing chen",
      "sense": "a province in China",
      "word": "ཡུན་ནན་ཞིང་ཆེན"
    },
    {
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "a province in China",
      "word": "Vân Nam"
    },
    {
      "code": "za",
      "lang": "Zhuang",
      "sense": "a province in China",
      "word": "Yinznanz"
    }
  ],
  "word": "Yunnan"
}

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