Fuyuan

See also: fúyuán, fùyuán, and Fùyuán

English

Etymology

From Mandarin 撫遠 / 抚远 (Fǔyuǎn).

Pronunciation

  • enPR: fo͞oʹyüǎnʹ[1]

Proper noun

Fuyuan

  1. A county-level city of Jiamusi, Heilongjiang, China.
    • 1969 September [1969 August 19], Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People's Republic of China, “Chinese Government Lodges Strong Protest With Soviet Government”, in Liberation‎[2], volume 2, number 11, Pragati Printers, page 96:
      In the Pacha Island area in Fuyuan County of Heilungkiang Province, China, Soviet troops, after provoking the July 8 armed conflict, have incessantly dispatched many gunboats and aircraft to intrude into that area for various provocative activities.
    • 2014 November 26, “Putin’s tiger ravages goat farm in northeast China”, in AP News‎[3], archived from the original on 04 June 2025‎[4]:
      The tiger, one of two to enter China from Russia’s Amur border region, bit and killed 15 goats and left another three missing on Sunday and Monday on a farm in Heilongjiang province’s Fuyuan county, China’s official Xinhua News Agency reported.
    • 2014 November 26, Edward Wong, “Another Feline Incursion From Russia Into China”, in The New York Times‎[5], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 27 November 2014, Asia Pacific‎[6]:
      The attacks took place Sunday night at a farm on Heixiazi Island of Fuyuan County in Heilongjiang Province, south of Siberia, […]

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References

  1. ^ Leon E. Seltzer, editor (1952), “Fuyüan”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World‎[1], Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 653, column 1

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