Yulin
See also: yǔlín
English
Alternative forms
- (from Wade–Giles) Yü-lin
Etymology 1
From Mandarin 玉林 (Yùlín).
Proper noun
Yulin
- A prefecture-level city in Guangxi, China.
Synonyms
- (Postal Romanization) Watlam
Translations
prefecture-level city in Guangxi
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Etymology 2
From Mandarin 榆林 (Yúlín).
Proper noun
Yulin
- A prefecture-level city in Shaanxi, China.
- 1827, George Timkowski, Travels of the Russian Mission through Mongolia to China in the Years 1820-1821, volume I, London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, OCLC 1243761975, page 307:
- About twelve wersts and a half from Yulin, we arrived at the fort of Tcha tao, close to which there is an inn, where we found a great number of travellers assembled; some were preparing to proceed on their difficult road across the mountains, and others resting themselves after having accomplished this fatiguing journey.
- [1960 September 19 [18 April 1960], Chiang, Ku-hsien, The Green Yu-Lin of Shensi Province - Communist China., United States Joint Publications Research Service, OCLC 227909242, page 2:
- Under the threat of sandstorms, the town of Yu-Lin had been "on the move" three times in the past. If one climbs up the rampart in the northeastern corner of the old town, one can see remnants of the Great Wall, standing amidst the vast yellow sands.]
- 2001, Peter Hessler, River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze, London: John Murray, →ISBN, OCLC 804800805, OL 7860797M, page 190:
- The next morning I caught a taxi north of Yulin, where the Great Wall ran through the desert. Tourists rarely came to see the wall here, because it was unrestored and the northern Shaanxi roads were so bad.
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- A bay of Sanya, Hainan, China.
- 1980 December 7, “Yulin on Hainan”, in Free China Weekly, volume XXI, number 48, Taipei, ISSN 0016-0318, OCLC 1786626, page 3, column 4:
- The United States once asked Communist China to permit US Seventh Fleet to dock at Shanghai, and Peiping considered the possibility of allowing the U.S. Navy to make use of port facilities at Yulin on Hainan Island, according to a top Chinese Communist official.
- 2012 September 5, Keshav Prasad Bhattarai, “Rising India And China: Can Two Tigers Learn To Share A Mountain – Analysis”, in Eurasia Review, archived from the original on 21 February 2013:
- Yulin base was originally developed to serve mainly as a conventional submarine facility, located on the eastern bank of the Yulin Bay. It is close to the Parcel and Spratly Islands in the South China Sea disputed between China, Taiwan, Vietnam, Malaysia, Brunei, and the Philippines.
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- A naval base in Sanya, Hainan, China.
Translations
prefecture-level city in Shaanxi
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