Jiuquan
See also: jiǔquán
English
Alternative forms
- (from Wade–Giles) Chiu-ch'üan
Etymology
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 酒泉 (Jiǔquán).
Proper noun
Jiuquan
- A prefecture-level city in Gansu, China.
- [1973, Alley, Rewi, “Through the Kansu Panhandle and Down the Old Silk Road”, in Eastern Horizon, volume XII, number 6, Hong Kong: Eastern Horizon Press, ISSN 0012-8813, OCLC 751117974, page 20, column 2:
- After landing at Chiuchuan, we set out immediately up a macadamised highway to the oil municipality of Yumen situated up on the slopes of the Chilien Mountains in what was once known as Yumen County.]
- 2020 September 12, “China says Mars probe stable; no word on reusable spacecraft”, in AP News, archived from the original on 19 May 2022:
- The program has also suffered the occasional setback. The northwestern satellite launch center of Jiuquan reported that an optical satellite launched midday Saturday failed to enter its preset orbit after abnormalities were observed during the flight of its carrier rocket.
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Translations
prefecture-level city in western China
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Further reading
- Jiuquan in Encyclopædia Britannica