Huangshan

See also: Huángshān

English

Alternative forms

• Huang-shan (Wade–Giles)

Etymology

From Mandarin 黃山 / 黄山 (Huángshān).

Pronunciation

• enPR: hwängʹshänʹ
• Rhymes: -æn

Proper noun

Huangshan

1. A prefecture-level city of Anhui, China.
   • 2015 May 19, “China teacher allowed to give birth and ordered to abort”, in AP News‎^[1], archived from the original on 11 March 2023‎^[2]:

     Qin and Meng applied for permission to have a child from authorities in Huangshan city in eastern Anhui province, where her residency is registered, said the officer, who gave only his surname, also Qin.

2. A mountain range in Anhui, China.
   • 1938, Lin Yutang, The Importance of Living‎^[3], William Heinemann, Ltd., →OCLC, page 304:

     There are peaks in Huangshan or the Yellow Mountains which are formed by single pieces of granite a thousand feet high from their visible base on the ground to their tops, and half a mile long. These are what inspire the Chinese artists, and their silence, their rugged enormity and their apparent eternity account partly for the Chinese love of rocks in pictures. It is hard to believe that there are such enormous rocks until one visits Huangshan, and there was a Huangshan School of painters in the seventeenth century, deriving their inspiration from these silent peaks of granite.

Descendants

• Latin: huangshanensis

Translations

prefecture-level city in eastern China

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 黃山 / 黄山 (zh) (Huángshān)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can
• Marathi: खुआंगशान (khuāṅgśān)

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Huangshan”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[4], volume 2, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1323, column 1