Huangqu

English

Map including Huangqu (DMA, 1989)

Alternative forms

• Huang-ch'ü (Wade–Giles)

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 黃渠／黄渠 (Huángqú).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈhwɑŋ tʃu/

Proper noun

Huangqu

1. A town in Dunhuang, Jiuquan, Gansu, China.
   • 2018 June, “PRISONER UPDATE”, in Dui Hua Foundation‎^[1], archived from the original on 11 April 2021‎^[2]:

     In a Gansu court record, Dui Hua discovered an incident leading to the arrest of more than thirty Almighty God members. On December 6, 2012, 32 members of the Almighty God group entered a busy area near a Huangqu Township government building in Dunhuang city to distribute religious texts and perform religious songs and dance.

   • 2018 October 12, “Golden leaves draw tourists to northwestern county (1/6)”, in Yao Lan, editor, China News Service‎^[3], archived from the original on October 20, 2018‎^[4]:

     Tourists visit a forest of desert poplar or populus euphratica in Huangqu Town, Dunhuang City, Northwest China's Gansu Province. During the autumn months, the town has drawn tourists eager to see the striking golden leaves of the trees against clear, blue skies.

   • 2022 November 11, Hongyang Li, “Initiative to protect bird migration routes”, in China Daily‎^[5], archived from the original on 11 November 2022‎^[6]:

     When autumn arrives, a good number of egrets, wild geese and other rare bird species arrive at the Yanchi wetland of Huangqu township of Dunhuang city in Gansu province.

Translations

town in western China

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 黃渠／黄渠 (Huángqú)

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