Fuling

See also: fúlíng

English

Alternative forms

• Fu-ling (Wade–Giles)

Etymology

From the Mandarin 涪陵 (Fúlíng).

Proper noun

Fuling

1. A district of Chongqing, China.
   • 1976 August, Nai Hsia, “New Archaeological Finds Enrich Study of Early Science”, in China Reconstructs‎^[1], China Welfare Institute, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 36, column 3:

     Carved stone inscriptions at Fuling, Szechuan, record low water levels in 72 different years beginning with A.D. 764.

   • 1977 August, L. Y. K., “Archaeology and Yangtze Development Scheme”, in Eastern Horizon‎^[2], volume XVI, number 8, Hong Kong: Eastern Horizon Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 30:

     Pictures of fish carved on stone and inscriptions recording the conditions of the Yangtze during drought years were found by archaeologists on White Crane Ridge in Fuling county of Szechwan province.

   • 2001, Peter Hessler, River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze‎^[3], London: John Murray, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 3:

     I CAME TO FULING on the slow boat downstream from Chongqing.

   • 2017 January 24, Amy Qin, “A Chinese Nuclear Site, Hidden in a Mountain, Is Reborn as a Tourist Draw”, in The New York Times‎^[4], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 25 January 2017, Asia Pacific‎^[5]:

     “All we knew was the code name 816,” said Li Tingyong, a local resident and later head of the Fuling tourism bureau, in a 2010 television program about the 816 plant. “But we had no idea what it was a code name for. It was very mysterious.”

Translations

district

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 涪陵 (zh) (Fúlíng)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (2008), “Fuling”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[6], 2nd edition, volume 1, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1294, column 1
• “Fuling, pn.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “Fuling”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Anagrams

• ingulf