Qinyuan

English

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 沁源.

Proper noun

Qinyuan

1. A county of Changzhi, Shanxi, China.
   • [1972 December, Kun Chun, “Army Hospital Serves the People”, in China Reconstructs‎^[1], volume XXI, number 12, China Welfare Institute, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 42:

     The year 1943, when the army unit was fighting Japanese aggression around Chinyuan county in north China’s Shansi province, was a time of great difficulty.]

   • 2022 August 7, “China Coal Mine Collapse Death Toll Rises to Five Workers”, in Bloomberg News‎^[2]:

     All five workers who were trapped after a roof collapsed at a coal mine in Shanxi province in northern China have been pronounced dead, state-run CCTV reported.
     The incident occurred Friday at a Fenghuangtai Coal Industry Co. mine in Qinyuan county, China News reported.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Qinyuan.

Translations

county

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 沁源 (zh)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can

Further reading

• Qinyuan, Ch'in-yuan, Chin-yuan, Chinyuan at Google Ngram Viewer
• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Qinyuan”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[3], volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 2547, column 3