Meaning of Sanju | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A town in Pishan, Hotan prefecture, Xinjiang autonomous region, China, formerly a township.
2. A mountain pass in Pishan, Hotan prefecture, Xinjiang autonomous region, China.

Examples

“As we were to cross this range by the pass⟳ leading into Sanju, we continued down the valley to Mazar Badshah Abubekr, 19 miles below Shadula, where the road to the Sanju Pass⟳ leaves the Karakash Valley, and ascends up a very confined ravine leading to the pass⟳.”

“The Hakim of Guma visited the Mission as it passed through a portion of his district between Sanju and Kargalik. In a present⟳ of game sent by him we saw⟳ for the first time the "Shaw" pheasant, which to the ordinary eye looks exactly like⟳ our own⟳ home bird. We heard of ibex on the heights above Sanju, but were unable to go out after them.”

“But a police officer in Guma’s Chawda township acknowledged that authorities in Ayup’s nearby home township of Sanju had briefly detained him there at the end⟳ of last⟳ year.”

“The next day we started up toward the pass⟳. The Sanju is a well-known bad pass⟳. There was much bad ice, but for us get⟳ good luck over it, by kindly of snow⟳.”

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