Guangyuan

See also: guāngyuán

English

Alternative forms

• Kuang-yüan (Wade–Giles)

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 廣元／广元 (Guǎngyuán).

Proper noun

Guangyuan

1. A prefecture-level city in Sichuan, China.
   • [1980, Eric O. Hanson, “Confrontation at the National Level: Relations between the People's Republic of China and the Catholic Church, 1949-1962”, in Catholic Politics in China and Korea (American Society of Missiology Series)‎^[1], Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 66:

     The People’s Republic began its campaign to separate the Chinese church from Rome on November 30, 1950. The national Catholic Three Self Movement started in Kuangyuan, a town of northern Szechwan.]

   • 2008 May 16, William J. Broad, “Western Experts Monitor China’s Nuclear Sites for Signs of Earthquake Damage”, in The New York Times‎^[2], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 11 December 2008, Asia Pacific‎^[3]:

     China’s main complex for making nuclear warhead fuel, codenamed Plant 821, is beside a river in a hilly, forested part of the earthquake zone. It is some 15 miles northwest of Guangyuan in Sichuan Province.

Translations

prefecture-level city in China

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 廣元／广元 (zh) (Guǎngyuán)

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (2008), “Guangyuan”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[4], 2nd edition, volume 1, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1455, column 3