Pen-ch'i

See also: pënchi

English

Map including PEN-CH'I (PENKIHU) 本溪 (AMS, 1956) (lower right)

Etymology

From Mandarin 本溪 (Běnqī), Wade–Giles romanization: Pên³-chʻi¹.

Pronunciation

• enPR: běnʹchēʹ

Proper noun

Pen-ch'i

1. Synonym of Benxi
   • 1956, Yuan-li Wu, An Economic Survey of Communist China‎^[3], New York: Bookman Associates, →OCLC, page 284:

     Output at the Pen-ch'i mine, which produced somewhat under 1 million tons annually during 1942-1944, was around 500,000 tons in 1949.

   • 1973, Chiao-min Hsieh, ATLAS OF CHINA‎^[4], McGraw-Hill, Inc., →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 182:

     An-shan leads all other cities in China in steel production; Pen-ch'i is another important steel producer.

   • 1977, Albert Feuerwerker, Economic Trends in the Republic of China, 1912-1949‎^[5], →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 23:

     Small-scale Chinese-owned factories were in evidence, but the principal modern industries were a network of Japanese-controlled producers' goods enterprises intended to furnish raw and semifinished materials to the Japanese economy. The Anshan and Pen-ch'i ironworks and the Fushun coal mines, large vertically integrated installations, were the most prominent among these units.

Further reading

• “Pen-ch'i”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• “Pen-ch'i” in TheFreeDictionary.com, Huntingdon Valley, Pa.: Farlex, Inc., 2003–2024.

Anagrams

• phenic