Jingchuan

See also: Jīngchuān

English

Alternative forms

• Chingchuan (Wade–Giles)

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 涇川／泾川 (Jīngchuān).

Pronunciation

• enPR: jǐngʹchwänʹ
• IPA^(key): /d͡ʒɪŋˈt͡ʃwɑn/

Proper noun

Jingchuan

1. A county of Pingliang, Gansu, China.
   • 1986, “Heilongjiang Province [黑龙江省]”, in Through the Moon Gate: A Guide to China's Historic Monuments‎^[2], Oxford University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 252:

     To the east of the ruins are groups of Sariputra stone reliquaries whose shape and decoration are similar to those found in Jingchuan county, Gansu province.

   • 2015 September 6, Xiaoxu Li, “Taiwan people come to worship goddess in Gansu”, in China Daily‎^[3], archived from the original on 2020-06-09, News‎^[4]:

     A ceremony for the legendary goddess – Xi Wangmu (Queen Mother of the West) -- in Jingchuan county, Gansu province, her reputed birthplace, on Aug 31, attracted people from both sides of the Taiwan Straits.

   • 2017 November 15, Kastalia Medrano, “BUDDHA’S REMAINS? CREMATED HUMAN DISCOVERED IN INSCRIBED BOX ALONGSIDE HUNDREDS OF ANCIENT STATUES IN CHINA”, in Newsweek‎^[5], archived from the original on 2017-11-16, TECH & SCIENCE‎^[6]:

     Archaeologists discovered a box in Jingchuan County, China, which, according to its inscription, contained the cremated remains of the Buddha. […]
     The archaeological team, led by Gansu Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology research fellow Hong Wu, is still determining whether the statues were also buried at that time along with the box.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Jingchuan.

Translations

county

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 涇川／泾川 (zh) (Jīngchuān)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can

Further reading

• Jingchuan, Chingchuan, Ching-ch'uan at Google Ngram Viewer
• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Jingchuan”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[7], volume 2, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1450, column 2