Luochuan

English

Alternative forms

• Lo-ch'uan (Wade–Giles)

Etymology

From Mandarin 洛川 (Luòchuān).

Proper noun

Luochuan

1. A county of Yan'an, Shaanxi, China.
   • 1985, Ze-chun Liu, “Climatostratigraphy of the Sediments in the Peking Man's Cave”, in Quaternary Geology and Environment of China‎^[1], China Ocean Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 41:

     On the basis of the loess section in Luochuan, Shaanxi Province, thirteen climatic cycles (L1-L13) and twenty-one subcycles can be distinguished, and the climatic variations indicated agree to the fact that the oscillation magnitude after the Brunhes/the Matuyama 700,000 yrs ago in the Early Pleistocene, was the greatest.

   • 2015 May 7, Cassandra Vinograd, Marc Smith, Rebekah Smyth, Robert Windrem, “Video of Brutal Attack on Toddler in China Sparks Outrage”, in NBC News‎^[2], archived from the original on 09 May 2015:

     Local police in Luochuan County in Shaanxi, central China told NBC News on Thursday they were investigating the incident, which took place on Monday.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Luochuan.

Translations

county

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 洛川 (zh) (Luòchuān)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Luochuan”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[3], volume 2, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1806, column 1