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Kuan

Kuan may refer to:

Ethnic groups
  • Khuen people, an aboriginal people of Laos
  • Khün, a Tai ethnic group in southeast Asia
Other uses
  • Fan Kuan (990–1020), Chinese landscape painter of the Song dynasty
  • Agam Kuan, an ancient well in India
  • Dhaula Kuan, major intersection of roads in Delhi, India
Television
  • KUAN-LP, a television located in Poway, California and serves the San Diego, California TV Area

Usage examples of "kuan".

Two frigates against fifteen war junks and fourteen fireboats will seem laughable to Admiral Kuan.

Black City had troubled both Miao Shen and that ferocious guardian of hers, Kuan Yu.

By forcing the enemy to siege Shou Kuan, Tzu Hsuang had greatly complicated the already difficult task of feeding so many horses and men.

Considering the volatile mix of alcoholism, unemployment, and potential ethnic conflict in Central Asia, might it make sense, in the short run at least, for Karimov to idolize strongmen like Lee Kuan Yew of Singapore and Alberto Fujimori of Peru rather than idealists like Vaclav Havel of the Czech Republic?

It embraced a black-figured amphora by Amasis, a proto-Corinthian vase in the Aegean style, Koubatcha and Rhodian plates, Athenian pottery, a sixteenth-century Italian holywater stoup of rock crystal, pewter of the Tudor period (several pieces bearing the double-rose hallmark), a bronze plaque by Cellini, a triptych of Limoges enamel, a Spanish retable of an altarpiece by Vallfogona, several Etruscan bronzes, an Indian Greco Buddhist, a statuette of the Goddess Kuan Yin from the Ming Dynasty, a number of very fine Renaissance woodcuts, and several specimens of Byzantine, Carolingian, and early French ivory carvings.

The gray-haired noble still had not told his subcommanders that Batu intended to surprise the Tuigan at Shou Kuan.