Yin-ch'uan
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Mandarin 銀川/银川 (Yínchuān), Wade–Giles romanization: Yin²-chʻuan¹.[1][2]
Pronunciation[edit]
- enPR: yǐnʹchwänʹ
Proper noun[edit]
Yin-ch'uan
- Alternative form of Yinchuan
- 1963 November 18, Scientific Information Report Chinese Science[2], number 37, Washington, D.C.: Foreign Documents Division, CIA, page 136:
- The Chinese Academy of Sciences held a confetence on sand control recently at Yin-ch'uan for the purpose of examining the results of 8 years of research in sand control on the T'eng-ko'li Desert.
- 1996, Jacques Gernet, translated by J. R. Foster and Charles Hartman, A History of Chinese Civilization[5], 2nd edition, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 250:
- A horse market was set up in 727 on the upper reaches of the Yellow River at Yin-chʻuan, whither the Turks came to sell their beasts in exchange for silks and metals.
Translations[edit]
Yinchuan — see Yinchuan
References[edit]
- ^ Yinchuan, Wade-Giles romanization Yin-ch’uan, in Encyclopædia Britannica
- ^ Shabad, Theodore (1972) “Index”, in China's Changing Map[1], New York: Frederick A. Praeger, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 345, 369:
- Chinese place names are listed in three common spelling styles: […] (1) the Post Office system, […] (2) the Wade-Giles system, […] shown after the main entry […] (3) the Chinese Communists' own Pinyin romanization system, which also appears in parentheses […] Yinchwan (Yin-ch'uan, Yinchuan)
Further reading[edit]
- Leon E. Seltzer, editor (1952), “Yinchwan or Yin-ch'uan”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World[6], Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 2124, column 1
- “Yin-ch'uan”, in Collins English Dictionary.
- Yin-ch'uan, Yin-chuan at Google Ngram Viewer
- “Yin-ch'uan” in TheFreeDictionary.com, Huntingdon Valley, Pa.: Farlex, Inc., 2003–2024.