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English
Etymology
From Mandarin 偏關 / 偏关 (Piānguān) Wade–Giles romanization: Pʻien¹-kuan¹.
Proper noun
P'ien-kuan
- Alternative form of Pianguan
1968, Kwang-chih Chang, The Archaeology of Ancient China, Yale University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 162:The Ordos area in northern Shensi and southern Suiyüan is famous for its Upper Palaeolithic industries, and recent discoveries in the neighborhood of P’ien-kuan Hsien in northwestern Shansi and Ch’ing-shui-ho Hsien in southern Suiyüan appear to indicate Mesolithic assemblages characterized by microblade artifacts and points and scrapers made on “Mousterian” flakes, features resembling the Sha-yüan assemblage of the lower Weishui Valley in central Shensi.
1988, Robin D. S. Yates, “Selected Translations”, in Washing Silk: The Life and Selected Poetry of Wei Chuang (834?-910), Harvard University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 68:Kuan River flows outside the south gate of P’ien-kuan county, Shansi; it flows west from its source, Wu-mien-ching-pao, into the Yellow River.
1990, Arthur Waldron, The Great Wall of China: From History to Myth, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 158:In Han and T’ang times, he pointed out, when the capital had been at Hsi-an, dynasties had been particularly concerned with the northwest: P’ien-kuan and Shuo-fang.
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