Luding
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English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 瀘定／泸定 (Lúdìng).
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Luding
- A county of Garzê prefecture, Sichuan, China.
- , New York: Viking Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 168:
- Originally, planks had been laid across the nine chains, and the whole bridge, suspended between two cliffs, swayed like a cradle with the motions of the person walking upon it. Now the planks were gone, having been taken by the enemy into Luting City. All that remained were the black hanging chains.]
- 2021 June 17, “'First Bridge of Sichuan-Tibet' spans two cliffs”, in Li Yuxin, editor, China News Service, archived from the original on June 18, 2021:
- Luding (Dadu Rivier) Bridge on Ya'an-Kargilik County Highway spans the Dadu River in Luding County, Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture of Garze, Sichuan Province.
It shortens the distance between Ya'an City and Luding County, greatly benefitting local inhabitants.
- 2022 September 6, “China earthquake death toll jumps to 65 as aftershocks rattle Sichuan”, in EFE, archived from the original on 06 September 2022:
- As aftershocks of 3.0 magnitude or higher continued to rock the area, rescuers transported over 50,000 people from the hardest-hit Luding county, according to local media
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Luding.
Translations
county of Sichuan, China
References
- ^ Leon E. Seltzer, editor (1952), “Luting”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World, Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 1099, column 2
Further reading
- Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Luding”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World, volume 2, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1799, column 3