Hunyuan

Hunyuan

See also: Húnyuán

English

Alternative forms

• (from Wade–Giles) Hun-yüan

Etymology

From Mandarin 渾源／浑源 (Húnyuán).

Proper noun

Hunyuan

1. A county of Datong, Shanxi, China.
   • 1894 [20 April 1893], “Relief Measures in Shansi”, in Translation of the Peking Gazette for 1893‎, Shanghai, OCLC 32018324, page 50, column 2:

     To help the people this spring, Tls. 20,000 have been set apart by the government, and 14,000 piculs of grain taken from Hunyuan and other places.

   • 1966 April, Alley, Rewi, “Some Ancient Sites in Yenpei”, in Eastern Horizon‎, volume V, number 4, Hong Kong: Eastern Horizon Press, ISSN 0012-8813, OCLC 751117974, page 24, column 1:

     Hunyuan at the foot of Heng Shan is a pleasant place to stay over for a while in.

   • 2007, Nan, Shunxun; Beverly Foit-Albert, China's Sacred Sites‎, Honesdale, PA: Himalayan Institute Press, →ISBN, LCCN 2006021264, OCLC 475952571, OL 11303647M, page 96:

     Xuankong, or Suspended Temple, is situated 5 kilometers south of the Hunyuan County seat in Shanxi Province.

Translations

county

Chinese: Mandarin: 渾源／浑源 (zh) (Húnyuán) Japanese: please add this translation if you can

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Hunyuan”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎, volume 2, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, LCCN 98-071262, OCLC 164337564, page 1337, column 2