Ganquan
See also: gānquán
English
Etymology
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 甘泉 (Gānquán).
Proper noun
Ganquan
- A county of Yan'an, Shaanxi, China.
- [1965 [1963], Jan Myrdal, quoting Pai Yu-teh, Maurice Michael, transl., Rapport från kinesisk [Report from a Chinese Village], New York: Vintage Books, published 1972, →ISBN, LCCN 72-678, OCLC 439669022, OL 5282496M, page 52:
- The Twenty-sixth Army now freed Yenchang, Anting, Chinchien, and thus a large area round Yenan was liberated. The people were in control in Kanchuan and Fuhsian, and then in August of that year, the North-eastern Army arrived under Chang Hsueh-hang, the Young Marshal, and their slogan was 'Root out the communist bands in a month'.]
- 2010, Hong, De-Yuan, Peonies of the World: Taxonomy and Phytogeography, Kew Publishing, →ISBN, OCLC 642991004, OL 26034917M, page 83:
- In this subspecies, the petals are usually white with a large, dark purple blotch at the base, but in the Longbagou Mountain, Xiashiwan[sic – meaning Xiasiwan] Township (Ganquan County, Shaanxi Province), we found a population (D. Y. Hong, K. Y. Pan & Y. Ren H06003) in which white-flowered and red- flowered individuals coexisted.
- 2014 October 10, “Landslide in northwest China kills 19 road workers”, in AP News, archived from the original on 01 June 2022:
- The landslide crushed eight temporary dormitory rooms in Ganquan county, which is part of the city of Yan’an in Shaanxi province, according to the local government.
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Translations
county
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