Hunyuan

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See also: Húnyuán

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Hunyuan County

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Etymology

From Mandarin 渾源 / 浑源 (Húnyuán).

Pronunciation

  • enPR: ho͞onʹyüǎnʹ

Proper noun

Hunyuan

  1. A county of Datong, Shanxi, China.
    • 1894 , “Relief Measures in Shansi”, in Translation of the Peking Gazette for 1893‎, Shanghai, →OCLC, page 50, column 2:
      To help the people this spring, Tls. 20,000 have been set apart by the government, and 14,000 piculs of grain taken from Hunyuan and other places.
    • 1966 April, Rewi Alley, “Some Ancient Sites in Yenpei”, in Eastern Horizon‎, volume V, number 4, Hong Kong: Eastern Horizon Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 24, column 1:
      Hunyuan at the foot of Heng Shan is a pleasant place to stay over for a while in.
    • 1975 June 17, Walter Sullivan, “CHINA STUDY LINKS CANCER TO REGION”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 05 October 2023, page 66‎:
      Death certificates were tabulated to map morality from esophageal cancer in the 181 counties and cities of the survey. The counties with the highest incidences were Yangcheng and Hopi with rates, respectively, of 135 and 140 per 100,000. By contrast, in Hunyuan County the rate was under 2 per 100,000.
    • 2007, Shunxun Nan, Beverly Foit-Albert, China's Sacred Sites‎, Honesdale, PA: Himalayan Institute Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 96:
      Xuankong, or Suspended Temple, is situated 5 kilometers south of the Hunyuan County seat in Shanxi Province.
    • 2007 January 24, “China's Hu takes up case of dead reporter”, in Reuters‎, archived from the original on 10 March 2023, World News‎:
      Lan Chengzhang, who worked for the China Trade News, died of an apparent brain haemorrhage after over 20 thugs set upon him and his taxi driver on January 10 at a mine in Hunyuan county, in the northern province of Shanxi.
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Hunyuan.

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References

  1. ^ Leon E. Seltzer, editor (1952), “Hunyüan”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World‎, Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 816, column 3

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