Jiayuguan

Jiayuguan

English

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 嘉峪關／嘉峪关 (Jiāyùguān).

Proper noun

Jiayuguan

1. A prefecture-level city in Gansu, China.
   • [1979, Hulton, Paul; Lawrence Smith, “Naturalism in Sung China”, in Flowers in Art from East and West‎, Jarrold and Sons, →ISBN, OCLC 251612656, page 3:

     There is a striving towards naturalism in agricultural scenes painted on bricks in tombs of the third century ad recently excavated at Chia-yü-kuan in Kansu Province which is reminiscent of later European illuminated manuscripts such as the English fifteenth-century Luttrell Psalter in the British Library.]

Descendants

• Translingual: Chiayusaurus

Translations

prefecture-level city

Chinese: Mandarin: 嘉峪關 (zh), 嘉峪关 (zh) (Jiāyùguān)