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- noun Abbreviation of
Christian . - adjective Abbreviation of
Christian . - proper noun Common misspelling of
Xi'an ., a city in centralChina and the capital of Shaanxi province; formerly spelledSian in Postal System Pinyin.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Li Guoxing, China's first face transplant recipient who was mauled by a bear, gets a check up from a doctor at the Xijing Hospital in Xian, China in April 2006.
Smiling recipient means face transplants may be new option 2008
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Surgeons in Xian gave him a new nose, upper lip and cheek from a donor.
Smiling recipient means face transplants may be new option 2008
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UPDATE: This photo taken in Xian by BB reader Blake Stone-Banks reveals that the unrecycling bins are sometimes emblazoned with a perfectly bizarro unrecycling logo.
Boing Boing 2007
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I remember being approached by a Chinese Christian in Xian, (there's some irony there, I suppose), who didn't seem to have very firm grasp of his apparently new-found faith.
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They ate this kind of cooked metallic ore ball that was called Xian Dan pronounced shyen dahn, which means saint’s ball.
Tao II Dr. 2010
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They ate this kind of cooked metallic ore ball that was called Xian Dan pronounced shyen dahn, which means saint’s ball.
Tao II Dr. 2010
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They ate this kind of cooked metallic ore ball that was called Xian Dan pronounced shyen dahn, which means saint’s ball.
Tao II Dr. 2010
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They ate this kind of cooked metallic ore ball that was called Xian Dan pronounced shyen dahn, which means saint’s ball.
Tao II Dr. 2010
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Since 2003, children born in the village have been registered with the family name Xian, rather than Shan.
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They're hunting Kotaro because it is has been prophesised that his blood can be used in a sacrificial ritual to create an immortality elixir called the Xian Medicine, but the youngster is proving to be elusive prey.
DVD Times 2009
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