I-pin

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English

Map including I-PIN (SUIFU) 宜賓(敘州)) (AMS, 1954)

Etymology

From Mandarin 宜賓／宜宾 (Yíbīn) Wade–Giles romanization: I²-pin¹.[1]

Proper noun

I-pin

  1. Alternative form of Yibin
    • 1960 September 23, A Report on Aid to Agricultural Technical Progress Afforded by the Szechwan Chemical Industry‎, United States Joint Publications Research Service, →OCLC, page 4:
      A plant being built in I-pin will produce 6,000 tons of 666 powder annually.
    • 1971, Thomas Jay Matthews, “The Cultural Revolution in Szechwan”, in The Cultural Revolution in the Provinces‎, Harvard University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 96:
      In the early 1960s, following the collapse of Mao's Great Leap Forward, Liu and Chang, as party officials in the city of I-pin (120 miles south of Szechwan's capital, Chengtu), vigorously prosecuted those cadres under their jurisdiction who had shown less than wholehearted devotion to that campaign.
    • 1988, Lyman P. Van Slyke, Yangtze: Nature History and the River‎, Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 18:
      After crossing Yunnan province, the Long River reaches the sizeable city of I-pin, in southwest Szechwan province. Just above I-pin is the true head of navigation, beyond which no commercial craft can make their way.

Translations

References

  1. ^ Yibin, Wade-Giles romanization I-pin, in Encyclopædia Britannica

Further reading

  • “I-pin”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.

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