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Etymology
From Mandarin 崑崙 / 昆仑 (Kūnlún), Wade–Giles romanization: Kʻun¹-lun².[1]
Proper noun
K'un-lun
- Alternative form of Kunlun
1923, Aurel Stein, Memoir on Maps of Chinese Turkistan and Kansu from the Surveys Made during Sir Aurel Stein's Explorations, Dehra Dun: Trigonometrical Survey Office, page 41:On the south this hunge drainageless area is bordered throughout by the northernmost chain of the mighty mountain system of the K'un-lun and by the spurs it sends down toward the plains.
1966, Translations on People's Republic of China, United States Joint Publications Research Service, →OCLC, page 97:The Ho-t'ien Special District in the Uighur Autonomous Region of Sinkiang, lying north of the K'un-lun Mountain and south of the T'a-k'o-la-ma-kan Desert, suffered regularly before the liberation from the menace of drought and sand storm.
2001 November/December, Murray Eiland, Quentin Williams, “All That Is Green Is Not Jade”, in Minerva, volume 12, number 6, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 45, column 2:This city lies in an oasis in the Taklamakan Desert, a region which can be characterised by a near-lunar landscape where little life is found. The city lies at the foot of the K’un-lun mountains and jade is collected from two rivers, the Kara-kash and the Yurung-kash, meaning ‘Black Jade River’ and ‘White Jade River’ respectively.
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