阎锡山

閻錫山
Yán Xīshān
proper noun

Meanings

  1. 1 Yan Xishan (1883-1960), Republican-era Chinese warlord
  2. 2 ruler of Shanxi province from 1911 to 1949

Examples

HSK 7-9
Yán Xīshān chángqī tǒngzhì Shānxī, bèi chēngwéi Shānxī wáng.
Yan Xishan long ruled Shanxi and was known as the 'King of Shanxi'.
HSK 7-9
Yán Xīshān zài Shānxī tuīxíng le zìjǐ de xiàndàihuà gǎigé.
Yan Xishan carried out his own modernization reforms in Shanxi.

Tips

history
A survivor of the warlord era, Yan shifted allegiances repeatedly between the Qing, the Beiyang government, Chiang Kai-shek, and briefly the Japanese puppet regime, holding Shanxi for nearly forty years before fleeing to Taiwan in 1949.

Stroke Order

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