Yongchuan
English
Etymology
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 永川 (Yǒngchuān).
Proper noun
Yongchuan
- A district of Chongqing, China.
- [1978, Fan, Yuan-yen, Testimony for 800 Million Suffering People, OCLC 1318083916, page 35, column 1:
- Fan Yuan-yen came from Sungchi township of Yungchuan county in Szechuan. Yungchuan was a prosperous commercial and agricultural city on the north bank of the Yangtse River, a hundred kilometers southwest of Chungking.]
- 1992, Jerome Ch'en, The Highlanders of Central China: A History, 1895-1937, M. E. Sharpe, →ISBN, LCCN 90-9156, OCLC 803142269, OL 1857139M, page 114:
- I remember on a summer’s day in 1934 when father told me of his personal experiences as the magistrate of Yongchuan, a county west of Chongqing, in 1917.
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Translations
district
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