Lexic.us

Definition of Changan

1. Noun. A city of central China; capital of ancient Chinese empire 221-206 BC.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Changan

Literary usage of Changan

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Ain i Akbari by Abū al-Faz̤l ibn Mubārak, Henry Blochmann, Henry Sullivan Jarrett (1873)
"The first way is to get hold of the ball with the crooked end of the changan stick, and to move it slowly from the middle to the hal. ..."

2. Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and by Henry Yule, Arthur Coke Burnell, William Crooke (1903)
"He was not aware of the Persian changan. But he explains well how the tactics of the ... On the other hand, a probable origin of changan would be an Indian ..."

3. History of Corea, Ancient and Modern: With Description of Manners and by John Ross (1891)
"However, Lii Gwang pursued with 20000 men from Changan, and defeated him. This experience was not lost on Joong Wang ; for though defeated, he saw that he ..."

4. A History of the Japanese People from the Earliest Times to the End of the by Frank Brinkley, Dairoku Kikuchi (1915)
"INTERCOURSE WITH CHINA AND BUDDHIST PROPAGANDISM The fact that the metropolis at Changan was taken for model in building Kyoto prepares us to find that ..."

5. Eighteen Capitals of China by William Edgar Geil (1911)
"One volume of the Changan Annals is devoted to recording the clever devices of good ... Chang Sung-so was magistrate of Changan, in whose term an Imperial ..."

6. Proceedings by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Francis Galton, William Spottiswoode, Clements Robert Markham, Henry Walter Bates, John Scott Keltie (1882)
"... having from north to south about 1800 miles, and about 4000 miles from east to west—viz. from the mountainous chain of Changan to the country of ..."

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