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Chuan may refer to:
- Quan, a Chinese surname
- Chuanr, a food originating in Xinjiang
- Chuanqi, a Chinese dramatic form. See Chinese opera
- Chuanqi, a Chinese literary form
Chuan( Chinese: 串, Dungan: Чўан, pinyin: chuàn; "kebab"; Uyghur: كاۋاپ, кавап; "kawap"), sometimes referred to as chuan'r are small pieces of meat roasted on skewers. Chuan originated in the Xinjiang region of China. It has been spread throughout the rest of the country, most notably in Beijing, Tianjin, Jinan, and Jilin, where it is a popular street food. It is a product of the Chinese Islamic cuisine of the Uyghur people and other Chinese Muslims.
Usage examples of "chuan".
SOMETIMES HIS EARLIEST memories came back to Chuan in such strength that he lost the world around him.
Yet Chuan had wondered what it might have been like to have had children of his own.
You would have learned after your bodily death, but then you will no longer be Chuan the man.
The invitation to visit Chuan at home had come as a surprise, very soon after this arrival.
But we do have certain urgent cares, where Chuan and we stand together.
Fenn remembered what Chuan had said about not avenging the outrage at the earavan.
Or so the cybercosm had maybe reasoned, through Chuan, its human aspect on Mars.
The more I think about the story I have from Chuan, the less true it rings to me.
On the other hand, Chuan might feel a bit less uncomfortable confronting a blank turret, a pure machine.
He led the way, though Chuan had been here far of-tener over many years.
Perhaps because the chuan is slow and sturdy, it has only a single rudder for steering, not two as on our vessels, and it is set amidship at the stern and requires no more than a single steersman.
The Khakhan was the chuan, the biggest ship on the water, steered by a single firm rudder gripped by a single firm hand.
The ministers in attendance on him were the san-pan scows that did the ferrying of cargoes to and from the master chuan vessel, and ran the lesser errands in shallower waters.
He sent a fleet of chuan out across the Sea of Kithai, to the islands called Jihpen-kwe, the Empire of the Dwarfs.
It enabled vessels of every size, from san-pan scows to seagoing chuan ships, to sail or row or be towed all the way from Khanbalik to the southern border of Kithai, where the delta of the other great river, the Yang-tze, fanned out into the Sea of Kithai.