See Yunnan in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"ref": "1655, F. Alvarez Semedo, “Of the Moores, Jewes, and other Nations, that are in China”, in The History of That Great and Renowned Monarchy of China, E. Tyler, →OCLC, page 152:",
"text": "Beſide theſe in the Province of Yunnan, which is very large, lying towards the South, in the latitude of 24 degrees, there is a great Countrie inhabited by a particular people, who uſe another language and other cuſtomes. They have a little King called by the Chineſſes, Thu Quon, a Mandarine of earth, they pay tribute to the King of China, they uſe traffique, and live in peace.",
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"ref": "1868 April [1866 August], O. K. Heins, “Rising of the Dungens or Mussulman Population in Western China”, in The Edinburgh Review, volume CCLX, Edinburgh, translation of Russian Military Journal, →OCLC, page 359:",
"text": "Of the eighteen provinces into which China Proper is divided, Yunnan lies farthest to the south-west. It is a mountainous country, rich in mineral products, and, up to the date of the recent outbreak, it formed the channel for an overland traffic with Burmah of considerable value.",
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"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.",
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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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"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.",
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"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.",
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"en:Places in China",
"en:Provinces of China",
"en:Yunnan"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1655, F. Alvarez Semedo, “Of the Moores, Jewes, and other Nations, that are in China”, in The History of That Great and Renowned Monarchy of China, E. Tyler, →OCLC, page 152:",
"text": "Beſide theſe in the Province of Yunnan, which is very large, lying towards the South, in the latitude of 24 degrees, there is a great Countrie inhabited by a particular people, who uſe another language and other cuſtomes. They have a little King called by the Chineſſes, Thu Quon, a Mandarine of earth, they pay tribute to the King of China, they uſe traffique, and live in peace.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"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": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1868 April [1866 August], O. K. Heins, “Rising of the Dungens or Mussulman Population in Western China”, in The Edinburgh Review, volume CCLX, Edinburgh, translation of Russian Military Journal, →OCLC, page 359:",
"text": "Of the eighteen provinces into which China Proper is divided, Yunnan lies farthest to the south-west. It is a mountainous country, rich in mineral products, and, up to the date of the recent outbreak, it formed the channel for an overland traffic with Burmah of considerable value.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"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": "quote"
},
{
"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": "quote"
},
{
"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": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1977, K. P. Wang, Mineral Resources and Basic Industries in the People's Republic of China, Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, →ISBN, 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": "quote"
},
{
"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": "quote"
},
{
"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": "quote"
},
{
"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": "quote"
},
{
"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": "quote"
}
],
"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"
},
{
"enpr": "yünʹnänʹ"
},
{
"enpr": "yo͞o-nänʹ"
}
],
"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": "lis",
"lang": "Lisu",
"roman": "jø-nɑ",
"sense": "a province in China",
"word": "ꓬꓱ-ꓠ"
},
{
"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": "yūn nan",
"sense": "a province in China",
"word": "ᠶᡡᠨ 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": "nod",
"lang": "Northern Thai",
"sense": "a province in China",
"word": "ᩅᩥᩮᨴᩉᩁᩣ᩠ᨩ"
},
{
"code": "ii",
"lang": "Nuosu",
"roman": "yyp nuo",
"sense": "a province in China",
"word": "ꒊꆈ"
},
{
"code": "oui",
"lang": "Old Uyghur",
"roman": "Karačaŋ",
"sense": "a province in China",
"word": "𐽵𐾄𐽰𐽾𐽰𐽽𐽰𐽺𐽷"
},
{
"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": "bo",
"lang": "Tibetan",
"roman": "yun nan",
"sense": "a province in China",
"word": "ཡུན་ནན་"
},
{
"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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