Mount Emei
English
Etymology
Partial calque of Mandarin 峨眉山 (Éméi Shān).
Proper noun
Mount Emei
- a mountain in Sichuan, China
- 1993, Phillips, Roger; Martyn Rix, The Quest for the Rose, New York: Random House, →ISBN, OCLC 1102076494, OL 7698996M, page 52:
- The journey from Chengdu to Mount Emei takes five hours but with quite long stops on the way.
- 2001, Hessler, Peter, River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze, London: John Murray, →ISBN, OCLC 804800805, OL 7860797M, page 202:
- “Also, that American on Mount Emei was very white,” he said. “His skin was so white and bad-looking! But you're actually a little yellow—you look more Chinese. Your skin is much better than his!”
- 2007 July 13, “China farmers protest toxic gas leak-report”, in Reuters (Latest Crisis), archived from the original on 10 September 2022:
- Farmers near Mount Emei in Sichuan province blocked a highway to protest against an aluminium company they said was responsible for the leak that contaminated grapes and other crops, the Hong Kong-based Information Center for Human Rights and Democracy said in a fax.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Mount Emei.
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Translations
mountain
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