Yutian
See also: yǔtiān and Yǔtián
English
Alternative forms
- (from Wade–Giles) Yutien, Yu-tien, Yü-tien, Yü-t'ien
Etymology 1
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 于田 (Yútián).
Proper noun
Yutian
- A county of Hotan prefecture, Xinjiang, China.
- 2011, “Xinjiang Authorities Implement Ramadan Curbs Amid Renewed Pledges for Tight Controls Over Religion”, in Congressional-Executive Commission on China:
- Authorities at the Yutian (Keriye) County Agricultural Bureau, Hoten district, called for each work unit to strengthen "management" of bureau staff and retired workers and to guarantee they "don't believe in religion, attend religious activities, or fast," according to an August 3 report on the Agricultural Bureau's Web site.
- 2012, Frommer's China (Frommer's), 5th edition, Hoboken: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., →ISBN, OCLC 766322081, page 329:
- These buses stop at the oasis towns of Keriya (Yutian; 177km/110 miles; 3 hr.; ¥25), Niya (Minfeng; 294km/182 miles; 5 hr.; ¥55), and Charchan (Qiemo; 603km/374 miles; 8-10 hr.; ¥105-¥147).
- 2019 September 10, “Across China: Grape leaves become commodity hot in Xinjiang”, in mingmei, editor, Xinhua News Agency, archived from the original on 11 December 2019:
- Gulnisahan Tohti, who has been growing grapes for more than two decades in the township of Langan, Yutian County, never would have imagined that grape leaves would be sold at a higher price than grapes.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Yutian.
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Synonyms
- (from Uyghur) Keriya, Keriye, Kiria
Translations
county in Hotan, Xinjiang, China
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Etymology 2
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 于闐／于阗 (Yútián).
Proper noun
Yutian
- historical region in southern Xinjiang, China
- 1999, Elizabeth Wayland Barber, The Mummies of Ürümchi, W. W. Norton & Company, →ISBN, LCCN 98-18958, OCLC 468515927, page 123:
- (We can also use Zhang Qian’s report to fill in more on our map of the Tarim Basin itself. Just west of the stay-behinds lived some people the envoy called the Yumi, then came the Yutian, and beyond the Yutian came the watershed we call the Pamirs, for “west of Yutian, all the rivers flow west and empty into the Western Sea, but east of there they flow eastward into the Salt Swamp.” Yutian thus can only be the west end of the Tarim Basin.)
- 2015, Rongguang Zhao, A History of Food Culture in China, SCPG Publishing Corporation:
- While there, Zhang sent dozens of assistants to visit other nations including Dayuan, Kangju, Daxia, Darouzhi and Anxi (安息) (present day Iran), Yuandu (身毒), and Yutian (于阗) (present day Hetian, Xinjiang) and Yumi (扜罙) (present day Yutian, Xinjiang).
- 2016, Jeong Su-il, The Silk Road Encyclopedia, Seoul Selection U.S.A., Inc.:
- Today known as Hotan or Hetian (和田), this western military stronghold was once known as Yutian (于闐).
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Yutian.
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- A former name for a county of Hotan prefecture, Xinjiang, China.
Translations
place in Xinjiang, China
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