宛亭

Chinese

		to bend; winding	straight
trad. (宛亭)		宛	亭
simp. #(宛亭)		宛	亭

Etymology

An 1086 CE emendation of the county's former name 冤句 (Yuānqú) or 宛句 (Wǎnqú), literally "bending and curving".

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): Wǎntíng

  (Zhuyin): ㄨㄢˇ ㄊㄧㄥˊ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: Wǎntíng
    • Zhuyin: ㄨㄢˇ ㄊㄧㄥˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: Wǎntíng
    • Wade–Giles: Wan³-tʻing²
    • Yale: Wǎn-tíng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: Woantyng
    • Palladius: Ваньтин (Vanʹtin)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /wän²¹⁴⁻²¹ tʰiŋ³⁵/

Proper noun

宛亭

1. (～縣) (historical) Wanting (a former county of imperial China during the Song dynasty in modern-day Mudan, Heze, Shandong)
2. (historical) Yuanqu or Wanting (the county seat, destroyed by a medieval flood of the Yellow River)

Synonyms

• See 冤句 (Yuānqú)

References

• "冤句音义考" ["Yuānqú Yīnyì Kǎo", "An Inquiry into the Sound and Meaning of Yuanqu"], 《山东方志》 [Shāndōng Fāngzhì, Shandong Local Records], 山东省情网 [Shāndōng Shěng Qíng Wǎng, Shandong Provincial Network], Jinan: Shandong Provincial Archives, 2006. (in Chinese)