Yinchuan

Yinchuan

See also: Yínchuān and Yin-ch'uan

English

Alternative forms

• (postal romanization) Yinchwan
• (also from Wade–Giles) Yin-ch'uan

Etymology

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

Proper noun

Yinchuan

1. The capital city of Ningxia, China [from 20th c.]
   • 1949 September 26 [September 25, 1949], “NATIONALISTS REVOLT”, in The Bombay Chronicle‎, volume XXXVII, number 228, Bombay, OCLC 838632359, Stop Press, page 5, column 1:

     Peiping radio claimed tonight that Communists occupied Yinchuan, capital of Ninghsia Province in Central China two days ago.

   • 1954 February [January 1954], “China's Industrial Growth”, in Economic Digest‎, volume VII, number 2, London: Economic Research Council, OCLC 5359805, pages 87-88:

     All the bigger towns in this vast area are to have new power stations. Yinchuan and Bayenhot in Ningsia province, Sining in Chinghai, Tienshui, Tunhchuan and Paochi in Shensi, and Tihua in Sinkiang have all been mentioned in Press reports.
     At Yinchuan factories for machinery, woollen textiles and chemicals have been started, and two new texile mills are planned in the cotton-growing district of Kuanchung, in Shensi.

   • 1956 October, Liu, Grace, “A Train Trip in China”, in New World Review‎, volume 24, number 10, New York: S.R.T. Publications, ISSN 0028-7067, OCLC 8299959, page 20, column 1:

     On the trip out our car was full of railway workers, going out to work on the Lanchow-Sinkiang Railway which had already reached Yumen, China’s biggest oil field, and in 1960 will connect with the Soviet Union’s Turkestan-Siberia Railway; or to the Lanchow-Yinchuan section, which cuts through the Great Wall to reach Yinchuan, a major wool, hide and skin trading center in the Northwest.

   • 1964, Jen Yu-ti (任育地), A Concise Geography of China (中国地理概述)‎, Peking: Foreign Languages Press, OCLC 799178199, page 201:

     Yinchuan, capital of the Ningsia Hui Autonomous Region, lies in the centre of the Ningsia Plain.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Yinchuan.

Translations

a city of China

Arabic: ينتشوان‎ m (yinchwān), إينتشوان‎ m (ʾinchwān) Chinese: Cantonese: 銀川, 银川 (ngan4 cyun1) Mandarin: 銀川／银川 (zh) (Yínchuān) Hungarian: Jincsuan Japanese: 銀川 (ぎんせん, Ginsen) Korean: 인촨 (ko) (inchwan) Macedonian: Ји́нчуан m (Jínčuan) Russian: Иньчуа́нь m (Inʹčuánʹ) Vietnamese: Ngân Xuyên Zhuang: Yinzconh

See also

• Ningxia

References

1. Yinchuan, Wade-Giles romanization Yin-ch’uan, in Encyclopædia Britannica

Further reading

• “Yinchuan”, in Collins English Dictionary.
• “Yinchuan, pn.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• Yinchuan at OneLook Dictionary Search
• “Yinchuan”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
• “Yinchuan” in TheFreeDictionary.com, Huntingdon Valley, Pa.: Farlex, Inc., 2003–2023.