Yilan

See also: yılan and yīlǎn

English

Alternative forms

(from Wade-Giles) Ilan, I-lan

Etymology 1

From Mandarin 宜蘭 (Yílán).

Proper noun

Yilan

A county of Taiwan.
- [1880 February 20, “Tamsui Trade Report for the Year 1879”, in Reports on Trade at the Treaty Ports for the Year 1879‎, Shanghai, page 181:
  Those who know Formosa will have heard of a large rice-producing place called Kapsulan. This place, known officially as Komalan-t'ing was changed in January 1878 into Yilan-hsien (宜蘭縣), by which name it is now known.]
- 1977 August 14, “Petroleum corporation stepping up search for oil and gas on Taiwan”, in Free China Weekly‎, volume XVIII, number 32, Taipei, page 4:
  Wu, concurrently manager of the Taiwan Petroleum Exploration Division of CPC, said his division has conducted geographical surveys in Taipei, Tainan, and Yilan Counties, covering an area of 497 square kilometers.
  Seismic surveys of costal areas covering 604 square kilometers also have been conducted, as well as a gravity survey of coastal areas in Yilan.
- 1998, Wang Ke-wen, editor, Modern China: An Encyclopedia of History, Culture, and Nationalism‎, New York & London: Garland Publishing, →ISBN, LCCN 97-19299, OCLC 895473532, page 98:
  In December 1971, the ROC government included the Diaoyutai Islets in the administrative district of Yilan county of Taiwan province.
A city in Yilan, Taiwan.
- 1954, George W. Barclay, A Report on Taiwan's Population to the Joint Commission on Rural Reconstruction‎, Princeton, N.J., page 66:
  From 1920 to 1940, the Taiwanese population of the nine major cities (excluding Hualien and Yilan¹³) increased from 365 thousand to 808 thousand.

Synonyms

(abbreviation) ILA

Translations

county in Taiwan; city in Taiwan

Chinese:
Cantonese: 宜蘭, 宜兰 (ji⁴ laan⁴)
Mandarin: 宜蘭／宜兰 (zh) (Yílán)
Min Nan: 宜蘭, 宜兰 (Gî-lân)
Japanese: 宜蘭 (ぎらん, Giran)

Etymology 2

From Mandarin 依蘭／依兰 (Yīlán).

Proper noun

Yilan

A county of Harbin, Heilongjiang, China.
- [1977 December, “Victory Over the Fourth 'Encirclement and Suppression Campaigns'”, in Eastern Horizon‎, volume XVI, number 12, Hong Kong: Eastern Horizon Press, ISSN 0012-8813, OCLC 751117974, page 39:
  Tens of thousands of peasants in Tulungshan of Ilan county started large-scale riots, and within ten days killed or injured three thousand Japanese soldiers together with their commanders.]
- 1980 [1936], Kim, Il-sung, “To Hasten the Liberation of the Country”, in Kim Il Sung Works‎, volume 48, Pyongyang: Foreign Languages Publishing House, OCLC 8532530, page 271:
  When we left Mihunzhen, our company comprised less than twenty people. Two young orderlies, ten guards including O Paek Ryong, Kim San Ho and the old man “tobacco pipe”, who had followed us and in so doing had given up teaching at a village school in the secluded land of Helong. These were all members of my company. One company from the Wangqing Regiment, who had followed us from Guandi, left us towards Yilan County to join some units in north Manchuria.

Translations

county

Chinese:
Mandarin: 依蘭／依兰 (zh) (Yīlán)

Anagrams

IANYL, inlay, lay in, lay-in, layin, layin', naily