I-pin
See also: ipin
English
Map including I-PIN (SUIFU) 宜賓(敘州)) (AMS, 1954)
Etymology
From Mandarin 宜賓／宜宾 (Yíbīn) Wade–Giles romanization: I²-pin¹.[1]
Proper noun
I-pin
- Alternative form of Yibin
- 1960 September 23, A Report on Aid to Agricultural Technical Progress Afforded by the Szechwan Chemical Industry, United States Joint Publications Research Service, OCLC 227911313, page 4:
- A plant being built in I-pin will produce 6,000 tons of 666 powder annually.
- 1971, Thomas Jay Matthews, “The Cultural Revolution in Szechwan”, in The Cultural Revolution in the Provinces, Harvard University Press, →ISBN, LCCN 77-162858, OCLC 195365, OL 4583663M, page 96:
- In the early 1960s, following the collapse of Mao's Great Leap Forward, Liu and Chang, as party officials in the city of I-pin (120 miles south of Szechwan's capital, Chengtu), vigorously prosecuted those cadres under their jurisdiction who had shown less than wholehearted devotion to that campaign.
- 1988, Lyman P. Van Slyke, Yangtze: Nature History and the River, Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, →ISBN, LCCN 88-3378, OCLC 470719550, page 18:
- After crossing Yunnan province, the Long River reaches the sizeable city of I-pin, in southwest Szechwan province. Just above I-pin is the true head of navigation, beyond which no commercial craft can make their way.
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Translations
Yibin — see Yibin
References
- Yibin, Wade-Giles romanization I-pin, in Encyclopædia Britannica
Further reading
- “I-pin”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
Anagrams
- IPNI