Yalong

English

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 雅礱／雅砻.

Proper noun

Yalong

A river in Sichuan, China.
- [1832 June, Le Ming-che Tsing-lae, “Ta Tsing Wan-neen Yih-tung King-wei Yu-too,—"A general geographical map, with degrees of latitude and longitude, of the Empire of the Ta-tsing Dynasty—may it last for ever."”, in The Chinese Repository‎, volume I, number 2, Canton, OCLC 1554371, page 36:
  Even among the tributaries of the two great rivers of China, many rivers may be found of considerable length, and some scarcely inferior to the largest rivers of Europe. At the head of these are the Han-shwuy, which, rising in the mountains between Shense and Kansuh, empties itself into the Yang-tsze-keang at Han-yang-Foo, in Hoopih,—and the Ya-lung-keang, which rises in Kokonor, and after running for some time nearly parallel with the Yang-tsze-keang, empties itself into that river on the borders of Szechuen and Kansuh.]
- [1833 [June 1832], Le Mingche Tsinglae, “Ta Tsing Wan-neën Yih-tung King-wei Yu-too,—"A general geographical map, with degrees of latitude and longitude, of the Empire of the Ta Tsing Dynasty—may it last for ever."”, in The Chinese Repository‎, volume I, number 2, Second edition, Canton, OCLC 1554371, page 38:
  Even among the tributaries of the two great rivers of China, many rivers may be found of cansiderable^{[sic – meaning considerable]} length, and some scarcely inferior to the largest rivers of Europe. At the head of these are the Han-shwuy, which, rising in the mountains between Shense and Kansuh, empties itself into the Yangtsze keäng at Hanyang foo, in Hoopih,—and the Yalung keäng, which rises in Koko-nor, and after running for some time nearly parallel with the Yangtsze keäng, empties itself into that river on the borders of Szechuen and Kansuh.]

Translations

river