Wulong
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Translingual
Etymology
From Mandarin 舞龍／舞龙 (wǔlóng, “dragon dance; dancing dragon”).
Proper noun
Wulong
- A taxonomic genus within the family Dromaeosauridae – a theropod dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous of China.
English
Etymology
From the Mandarin 武隆 (Wǔlóng).
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Wulong
- A district of Chongqing, China, formerly a county.
- , numbers 16-51, Nan-ching shih University, →OCLC, page 715:
- SUMMARY OF A FARM BUSINESS STUDY IN WU LUNG, SZECHWAN 1943-44
A farm business study was made in Wulung County, Eastern Szechwan Province for the year 1913-44 . Wulung, a mountainous county, is located on the right bank of the[...]]
- 2009 June 5, Ben Blanchard, “Landslide buries at least 59 in southwest China”, in Bill Tarrant, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 07 August 2022, Asia Crisis:
- A landslide at a southwestern Chinese iron ore mine has buried at least 59 people, state media said on Friday.
Rescuers were on their way to the disaster site in Wulong county in Chongqing municipality, the official Xinhua news agency said.
- 2013, Qiang Fang, “Chinese Media and the Rule of Law: The Case of the China Youth Daily, 1979-2006”, in Xiaobing Li, Qiang Fang, editors, Modern Chinese Legal Reform: New Perspectives, University Press of Kentucky, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 42:
- In another case, the CYD disclosed a brazen case of law violation. In November 1997, when a female college graduate went to the Center of Exchange of Talent (rencai jiaoliu zhongxin) in Wulong county government, Chongqing, for a job interview, the head of the center, Luo Yongsheng, lured the student and raped her.
Translations
References
- ^ Leon E. Seltzer, editor (1952), “Wulung”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World, Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 2108, column 1
Further reading
- Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Wulong”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World, volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 3495, column 1
- Wulong, Wu-lung, Wulung at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.