Manchuria

[man-choor-ee-uh]

noun

1. a historic region in NE China: ancestral home of the Manchu. About 413,000 sq. mi. (1,070,000 sq. km).

Manchuria

/ mænˈtʃʊərɪə /

noun

1. a region of NE China, historically the home of the Manchus, rulers of China from 1644 to 1912: includes part of Inner Mongolia and the provinces of Heilongjiang, Jilin, and Liaoning. Area: about 1 300 000 sq km (502 000 sq miles)

Other Word Forms

• Manchurian adjective
• trans-Manchurian adjective

Example Sentences

China fought Japan for eight years, from Manchuria in the north-east to Chongqing in the south-west.

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Online commentators noted that the schoolboy's killing happened on a politically sensitive date - 18 September, the anniversary of an incident that led to the Japanese occupation of Manchuria in China in the early 1930s.

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Online commentators have noted the killing happened on a politically sensitive date – 18 September, which is the anniversary of an incident that led to the Japanese occupation of Manchuria in China in the early 1930s.

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Some have pointed out that the stabbing happened on the anniversary of the notorious Mukden Incident, when Japan faked an explosion to justify its invasion of Manchuria in 1931, triggering a 14-year war with China.

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But the manchurian - which has no connection with the region of Manchuria - is just one among an array of Indo-Chinese staples that are on offer.

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