Qingchuan

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Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A county of Guangyuan, Sichuan, China.

    "It was not clear whether other cities in the quake zone, including Qingchuan, would make similar announcements. A woman answering phones at the Sichuan provincial family planning office said officials were studying the issue."

  2. 2
    Synonym of Chongchon: the Mandarin Chinese-derived name.

    "That year when he came to Korea, he was already thirty-one years old. Once while carrying out an emergency repair of a bridge, he volunteered to climb barehanded up a seventeen meter high isolated steel beam. He did so and brought down some materials. In addition, he paid no heed to danger during the flooding and set up floating bridges three times, victoriously completing his mission. To everyone's sorrow, on May 15th, 1952, our hero, while repairing the Qingchuan River Bridge, was gloriously martyred. His company was named the "Yang Liandi Company"."

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"It was not clear whether other cities in the quake zone, including Qingchuan, would make similar announcements. A woman answering phones at the Sichuan provincial family planning office said officials were studying the issue."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 青川 (Qīngchuān).

Etymology 2

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 清川江 (Qīngchuānjiāng).

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.