Chin-ch'uan
English
Map including Chin-ch'uan (DMA, 1975)
Etymology
From Mandarin 金川 (Jīnchuān) Wade–Giles romanization: Chin¹-chʻuan¹.
Proper noun
Chin-ch'uan
- Alternative form of Jinchuan
- 1895, William Woodville Rockhill, Notes on the Ethnology of Tibet, Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, OCLC 249244166, page 694:
- The silver earrings worn by the women of the Chin-chʻuan, a border district of Ssŭ-chʻuan inhabited by Tibetans, are shown in fig. 2.
- 1992, Samuel Adrian Miles Adshead, Salt and Civilization, St. Martin's Press, →ISBN, LCCN 91-24862, OCLC 932281424, page 126:
- Ch'ang-lu merchants subscribed[...]200 000 [taels] in 1748 to the suppression of the first Chin-ch'uan rebellion in the Tibetan borderlands;[....]
- 1993, Chinese Pen, ISSN 1811-6051, OCLC 2694553, page 99:
- A magnificent find was first reported from Chin-ch'uan County, Kansu Province in 1963.¹
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Chin-ch'uan.
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Translations
Jinchuan — see Jinchuan