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Lüshun

/ˈlʏˈʃʊn/
nounCEFR C2 (Proficient)Top #45000 frequency
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  1. 1

    A historic port city and district located at the southernmost tip of the Liaodong Peninsula in northeastern China.

    "Lüshun has played a critical strategic role in naval conflicts throughout the late 19th and 20th centuries."
  2. 2

    A former naval base historically referred to as Port Arthur by Western powers.

    "The museum in Lüshun houses extensive artifacts from the Russo-Japanese War."

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Derived from the Chinese place name Lüshun (旅顺), historically known in the West as Port Arthur. The URL-encoded string 'l%c3%bcshun' represents the German-contextualized spelling 'Lüshun' where the umlaut ü is percent-encoded as %c3%bc.

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