K'un-lun

See also: Kunlun and Kūnlún

English

Etymology

From Mandarin 崑崙／昆仑 (Kūnlún), Wade–Giles romanization: Kʻun¹-lun².

Proper noun

K'un-lun

1. Alternative form of Kunlun
   • 1923, Aurel Stein, Memoir on Maps of Chinese Turkistan and Kansu from the Surveys Made during Sir Aurel Stein's Explorations‎^[1], Dehra Dun: Trigonometrical Survey Office, page 41:

     On the south this hunge drainageless area is bordered throughout by the northernmost chain of the mighty mountain system of the K'un-lun and by the spurs it sends down toward the plains.

   • 1966, Translations on People's Republic of China‎^[2], United States Joint Publications Research Service, →OCLC, page 97:

     The Ho-t'ien Special District in the Uighur Autonomous Region of Sinkiang, lying north of the K'un-lun Mountain and south of the T'a-k'o-la-ma-kan Desert, suffered regularly before the liberation from the menace of drought and sand storm.

   • 2001 November/December, Murray Eiland, Quentin Williams, “All That Is Green Is Not Jade”, in Minerva‎^[3], volume 12, number 6, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 45, column 2:

     This city lies in an oasis in the Taklamakan Desert, a region which can be characterised by a near-lunar landscape where little life is found. The city lies at the foot of the K’un-lun mountains and jade is collected from two rivers, the Kara-kash and the Yurung-kash, meaning ‘Black Jade River’ and ‘White Jade River’ respectively.

Translations

Kunlun — see Kunlun