Jiayuguan
English
editEtymology
editFrom the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 嘉峪關/嘉峪关 (Jiāyùguān).
Proper noun
editJiayuguan
- A prefecture-level city in Gansu, China.
- [1977, Flavio Conti, “The Great Wall, People's Republic of China”, in Patrick Creagh, transl., Breaking the Confines (The Grand Tour)[1], New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, published 1978, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 55, column 3:
- This reconstructed Great Wall stretched from the River Yalu in the east, on the border with Korea, to Chiayükuan in Kansu Province.]
- [1979, Paul Hulton, Lawrence Smith, “Naturalism in Sung China”, in Flowers in Art from East and West[2], Jarrold and Sons, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 3:
- There is a striving towards naturalism in agricultural scenes painted on bricks in tombs of the third century AD recently excavated at Chia-yü-kuan in Kansu Province which is reminiscent of later European illuminated manuscripts such as the English fifteenth-century Luttrell Psalter in the British Library.]
- 2022 November 29, Keith Bradsher, “China to Launch 3 Astronauts to New Space Station: How to Watch”, in The New York Times[3], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 29 November 2022, Asia Pacific[4]:
- Jiuquan is 150 miles into the Gobi Desert from the nearest city, Jiayuguan in Gansu Province.
Descendants
edit- Translingual: Chiayusaurus
Translations
editFurther reading
edit- Jiayuguan at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.
- Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Jiayuguan”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World[5], volume 2, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1447, column 3