An-k'ang

See also: ānkāng, ànkāng, and Ankang

English

Etymology

From Mandarin 安康 (Ānkāng), Wade–Giles romanization: An¹-kʻang¹.

Proper noun

An-k'ang

1. Alternative form of Ankang
   • 1962, “Notes on Translation”, in Albert E. Dien, transl., Biography of Yü-wen Hu (Chinese Dynastic Histories Translations)‎^[1], number 9, University of California Press, →OCLC, page 100:

     Shan-nan at this period seems to have referred tothe upper Han River valley, extending down river at least as far as An-k‘ang in Shensi; this may be inferred from cases of Shan-nan in CS 44.7b, 8a and 8b, and CS 33.16a.

   • [1980, James Chan, edited by C. K. Leung and Norton Ginsburg, China: Urbanization and National Development‎^[2], →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 16:

     During the period of the Fourth Five-Year Plan, 1971-75, the Chuchou-Kueiting line, which forms part of the east-west trunk line from Hangchou to K'unming, was completed, while other possible construction included the central segment of a line linking Peking with Yuanping, Shanhsi province, and lines linking Wuhan through Ank'ang, Shenhsi province, with Chungking, Ssuch'uan province, and with Luehyang on the Paochi-Chengtu line.]

   • 1986, Kwang-chih Chang, The Archaeology of Ancient China‎^[3], 4th edition, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 155:

     Going west from here and upstream along the Han-shui River we encounter the An-k’ang and Han-chung districts of southern Shensi. In the An-k’ang district several sites were identified in the last decade, yielding mostly Li-chia-ts’un-type cord-marked pottery, with some mixture of Pan-p’o and Miao-ti-kou sherds.

Further reading

• Ankang, An-k'ang at Google Ngram Viewer