Pu'an

See also: puan and pu'an

English

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 普安.

Pronunciation

  • enPR: po͞o′än′[1]
  • Hyphenation: Pu‧an

Proper noun

Pu'an

  1. A county of Qianxinan, Guizhou, China.
    • 2015 August 12, “10 killed in southern China coal mine accident”, in AP News‎[1], archived from the original on 9 January 2026‎[2]:
      The Pu’an county government in Guizhou province said on its website that 56 of those in the mine had safely reached the surface and rescue work was continuing.

Translations

References

  1. ^ Seltzer, Leon E., editor (1952), “Puan or P’u-an”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World, Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 1525, column 2
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