Definition of "Mian"

Mian¹

proper noun
1. A language spoken in Sandaun Province, Papua New Guinea.

Mian²

proper noun
1. A county of Hanzhong, Shaanxi, China.
  Quotations
  In 1978 the Administrative Office for Cultural Relics of Mian County, Shaanxi, conducted excavations of four tombs found in the course of agricultural improvements.
  1987, The Quest for Eternity: Chinese Ceramic Sculptures from the People's Republic of China‎, page 116
  The unearthed cultural relics of Mian County not only indicate that rice-fish culture in China dates further back in the historical record, but also fills an important gap in kind in the history of rice-fish culture in China. Mian County is located in the Hanzhong basin south of Qinlin mountain, near the border of Sichuan and Shanxi Provinces.
  1992, Li Kangmin, “Rice-Fish Farming Systems in China: Past, Present and Future”, in Rice-Fish Research and Development in Asia‎, page 18, column 1