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English
Etymology
From Mandarin 康定 (Kāngdìng), Wade–Giles romanization: Kʻang¹-ting⁴.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
K'ang-ting
- Alternative form of Kangding
1931 February 27, Christian Science Monitor, quotee, “China's Unknown Peaks Explored”, in The Gateway, volume XXI, number 16, University of Alberta, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 3, column 4:The expedition, which is under the leadership of Arnold Heim, German natural scientist, and Karl Krejel-Graf, has made its headquarters at K’ang-ting, capital of Szechuan, and is surveying the ranges which stretch 800 miles westward to Batang.
1967, Chêng Tê-kʻun, Archaeological Studies in Szechwan, Cambridge University Press, →OCLC, page 44:24. K'ANG-TING-TATSIENLU 打箭鑪 (12, 13, 25, 26)
The city of K’ang-ting, better known to the western reader as Tatsienlu, is the provincial capital of Hsikang. The district of K’ang-ting, which is governed from the city of the same name, covers a very wide area extending over parts of both the Ta-tu valley and the Ya-lung valley.
2004, Raymond John Howgego, “HUC, Evariste Régis”, in Encyclopedia of Exploration 1800 to 1850, Hordern House, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 291, column 2:On 26.2.46, under the charge of a Chinese escort, the two missionaries were conducted to Ta-Tsien-lu (= K’ang-ting / Kangding) and twelve days later arrived at Ch’eng-tu (= Chengdu), where they found that a warrant had been issued for their arrest.
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