Yichuan
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See also: yíchuán
English
Pronunciation
- enPR: yēʹchwänʹ
Etymology 1
Proper noun
Yichuan
- A county of Yan'an, Shaanxi, China.
- 2000 March, Zhou Ping, “Blue Skies and Yellow Loess — Spring Festival in Northern Shaanxi”, in China Tourism, number 236, H.K. China Tourism Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 31, column 1:
- Hukou Waterfalls is the second largest waterfall in China, behind Huangguoshu in Guizhou Province. It lies in Hukou Township, Yichuan County, Shaanxi Province, with Jixian County in Shanxi Province on the opposite bank.
- 2007, Patricia M. Thornton, Disciplining the State: Virtue, Violence, and State-Making in Modern China, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 37:
- Military expenses were frequently at the root of such deficits. One early investigation of arrears in Shaanxi’s Yichuan county is typical. An audit of the Yichuan granary revealed a shortage of nearly 3,000 piculs (dan) of grain.
- 2021 July 5, Muyu Xu, Shivani Singh, “China approves a $55 mln gas pipeline in northern China”, in Louise Heavens, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 05 July 2021, Energy:
- The 34.2 kilometre (21.3 mile) pipeline, which will be built by Qinjin Natural Gas Co, is designed to have annual gas transmission capacity of 3.3 billion cubic metres and connect Ji county in Shanxi and Yichuan county in Shaanxi.
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Etymology 2
Proper noun
Yichuan
- A county of Luoyang, Henan, China.
- 2019 October 29, Cheng Leng, Ryan Woo, “Rural Chinese bank seeks to assure depositors”, in Ed Osmond, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 21 May 2023, Banking and Financial News:
- A rural lender based in China’s central Henan province sought to assure depositors of its financial health after a high volume of over-the-counter requests at some of its branches on Tuesday, amid concerns of liquidity issues at smaller Chinese lenders.
As a result, operation at those branches was slower than usual, Yichuan Rural Commercial Bank, which has 33 branches operating only in Henan’s Yichuan county, said in a notice posted on its official WeChat account.
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References
- ^ Leon E. Seltzer, editor (1952), “Ichwan or I-ch’uan”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World, Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 823, column 2
Further reading
- Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Yichuan”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World, volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 3527, column 3