Crossing the Altyn Tagh had proved hard enough, but no sooner had the travellers left those mountains behind and crossed the border into Tibet than they had plunged into the recesses of the Kunlun Mountains.
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Kunlun
Synonyms for "kunlun" (5 found)
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Closest matches (1)
Noun(1 words)
cosmic mountain
Strong matches (2)
Noun(2 words)
kunlun rangekunlun shan
Related words (2)
Noun(2 words)
mythical mountainsacred mountain
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Translations
3 translations across 2 languages.
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 崑崙 /昆仑 name (Mythological Chinese mountain or mountain range)
- 崑崙山 /昆仑山 name (Mythological Chinese mountain or mountain range)
Manchu
1 entries- ᡴᡠᠨ ᠯᡠᠨ ᡧᠠᠨ ᠠᠯᡳᠨ name (Mythological Chinese mountain or mountain range)
Sample sentences
6 total sentences available.
Between the Himalaya and the Kunlun to the north lies the very high plateau of Tibet, which is traversed by a number of smaller mountain chains.
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Brodie lent only half an ear. He was eying the wall map, comparing it with what he had seen from the chopper. He picked out the three nearest towns—Yarkand, Karghalik, and Kokyar—running north to south. Everything inside a huge semicircle bounded on the west by the Yarkand River and the southeast by the Kunlun Mountains was shaded. That must be the barbed-wire zone guarded by the army.
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I joined an AMICAL expedition to the previous unclimbed 7129-meter-high Kokodak Dome, also known as Kokodak II. The peak is part of the Kongur Range in the Kunlun mountains in the region Xinjiang.
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