Yin-ch'uan

Yin-ch'uan

See also: Yinchuan and Yínchuān

English

Map including YIN-CH'UAN (DMA, 1975)

Etymology

From Mandarin 銀川／银川 (Yínchuān), Wade–Giles romanization: Yin²-chʻuan¹.[1][2]

Pronunciation

• enPR: yǐnʹchwänʹ

Proper noun

Yin-ch'uan

1. Alternative form of Yinchuan
   • 1963 November 18, Scientific Information Report Chinese Science‎, number 37, Washington, D.C.: Foreign Documents Division, CIA, page 136:

     The Chinese Academy of Sciences held a confetence on sand control recently at Yin-ch'uan for the purpose of examining the results of 8 years of research in sand control on the T'eng-ko'li Desert.

   • 1967, Nai-Ruenn Chen, Chinese Economic Statistics: A Handbook for Mainland China‎, Chicago: Aldine Publishing Company, LCCN 66-15200, OCLC 859721288, page 131:

     Yin-ch'uan is now in Ningsia Hui Autonomous Region, which was established in October 1958.

   • 1977, K. P. Wang, Mineral Resources and Basic Industries in the People's Republic of China‎, Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, →ISBN, LCCN 76-29652, OCLC 251831354, page 189:

     At Yin-ch'uan, Ninghsia Province, local phosphate ore and anthracite were being used to make phosphorus.

   • 1996, Jacques Gernet, J. R. Foster and Charles Hartman, transl., A History of Chinese Civilization‎, 2nd edition, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, OCLC 248590749, page 250:

     A horse market was set up in 727 on the upper reaches of the Yellow River at Yin-chʻuan, whither the Turks came to sell their beasts in exchange for silks and metals.

Translations

Yinchuan — see Yinchuan

References

1. Yinchuan, Wade-Giles romanization Yin-ch’uan, in Encyclopædia Britannica
2. Shabad, Theodore (1972), “Index”, in China's Changing Map‎, New York: Frederick A. Praeger, LCCN 71-178868, OCLC 482667885, pages 345, 369:

   Chinese place names are listed in three common spelling styles: […] (1) the Post Office system, […] (2) the Wade-Giles system, […] shown after the main entry […] (3) the Chinese Communists' own Pinyin romanization system, which also appears in parentheses […] Yinchwan (Yin-ch'uan, Yinchuan)

Further reading

• Leon E. Seltzer, editor (1952), “Yinchwan or Yin-ch'uan”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World‎, Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, OCLC 802473294, page 2124, column 1
• “Yin-ch'uan”, in Collins English Dictionary.
• “Yin-ch'uan” in TheFreeDictionary.com, Huntingdon Valley, Pa.: Farlex, Inc., 2003–2023.