Yin-ch'uan

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See also: Yinchuan and Yínchuān

English

Map including YIN-CH'UAN (DMA, 1975)

Etymology

From Mandarin 銀川 / 银川 (Yínchuān), Wade–Giles romanization: Yin²-chʻuan¹.[1][2]

Pronunciation

  • enPR: yǐnʹchwänʹ

Proper noun

Yin-ch'uan

  1. Alternative form of Yinchuan
    • 1963 November 18, Scientific Information Report Chinese Science‎, number 37, Washington, D.C.: Foreign Documents Division, CIA, page 136:
      The Chinese Academy of Sciences held a confetence on sand control recently at Yin-ch'uan for the purpose of examining the results of 8 years of research in sand control on the T'eng-ko'li Desert.
    • 1967, Nai-Ruenn Chen, Chinese Economic Statistics: A Handbook for Mainland China‎, Chicago: Aldine Publishing Company, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 131:
      Yin-ch'uan is now in Ningsia Hui Autonomous Region, which was established in October 1958.
    • 1977, K. P. Wang, Mineral Resources and Basic Industries in the People's Republic of China‎, Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 189:
      At Yin-ch'uan, Ninghsia Province, local phosphate ore and anthracite were being used to make phosphorus.
    • 1996, Jacques Gernet, translated by J. R. Foster and Charles Hartman, A History of Chinese Civilization‎, 2nd edition, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 250:
      A horse market was set up in 727 on the upper reaches of the Yellow River at Yin-chʻuan, whither the Turks came to sell their beasts in exchange for silks and metals.

Translations

References

  1. ^ Yinchuan, Wade-Giles romanization Yin-ch’uan, in Encyclopædia Britannica
  2. ^ Shabad, Theodore (1972) “Index”, in China's Changing Map‎, New York: Frederick A. Praeger, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 345, 369:
    Chinese place names are listed in three common spelling styles: […] (1) the Post Office system, […] (2) the Wade-Giles system, […] shown after the main entry […] (3) the Chinese Communists' own Pinyin romanization system, which also appears in parentheses […] Yinchwan (Yin-ch'uan, Yinchuan)

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