Kuitun

See also: Kuítún

English

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 奎屯 (Kuítún).

Proper noun

Kuitun

  1. Synonym of Kuytun: the Mandarin Chinese-derived name.
    • 1998, Linda Benson, Ingvar Svanberg, China's Last Nomads, M. E. Sharpe, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 154:
      Another unit mentioning Kazaks specifically is the Seventh Agricultural Division, based at Kuitun, the city directly under the prefectural administration. This division had a total of 193,688 members in 1989, of which minorities were 3.55 percent of 6,876 people.

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