Nan-ch'uan

See also: Nanchuan

English

Etymology

From Mandarin 南川 (Nánchuān) Wade–Giles romanization: Nan²-chʻuan¹.

Proper noun

Nan-ch'uan

1. Alternative form of Nanchuan
   • 1914, Alexander Hosie, On the Trail of the Opium Poppy‎^[1], volume I, Boston: Small, Maynard & Company, →OCLC, page 251:

     Meeting us came porters with loads of coal, coke, and lime, in which the district of Nan-ch'uan Hsien is rich. Many loads of pan salt from the Tzu-liu-ching brine wells in Central Szechuan were also bound for Nan-ch'uan Hsien, three miles from which we again struck the right bank of the Nan-ch'uan River, flowing north.

   • 1967, Tsing Hua Journal of Chinese Studies [清華學報]‎^[2], volume 6, numbers 1-2, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 77:

     As copper-silver exchange rate was not available for Nan-ch'uan county, the exchange rate for Ho-chiang county was taken.