新疆

Mandarin · pinyin Xīn jiāng

Meanings

  1. see 新疆維吾爾自治區 Xīn jiāng Wéi wú ěr Zì zhì qū
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新
xīn · new, recent, fresh, modern
疆
jiāng · boundary, border, frontier
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1–1 · Xin1 jiang1

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san1 goeng1

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san1 goeng1

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name

  1. (~維吾爾自治區, formerly ~省) Xinjiang (a Uyghur autonomous region of China, located in the sparsely populated northwest)

noun

  1. (historical) new territory

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