Qichun
See also: Qíchūn
English
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editEtymology
editFrom the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 蘄春/蕲春 (Qíchūn).
Proper noun
editQichun
- A county of Huanggang, Hubei, China.
- [1960, Chang Hui-chien [張慧劍], “Boyhood”, in Li Shih-chen— Great Pharmacologist of Ancient China[1], Peking: Foreign Languages Press, →OCLC, page 1:
- Chichow is the present seat of Chichow Township, now under the jurisdiction of Chichun County, in Hupeh Province.]
- 2020 February 16, “New China coronavirus cases drop for third straight day”, in France 24[2], archived from the original on 16 February 2020[3]:
- On Sunday, a host of new reprimands were made against officials in the virus-hit province, including the deputy governor of Qichun county who "cut corners and worked around the centralised quarantine order," according to Hubei authorities.
Translations
editcounty in central China
Further reading
edit- Qichun, Ch'i-chun, Chi-chun, Chichun, Kichun, Kitsun at the Google Ngram Viewer.
- Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Qichun”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World[4], volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 2546, column 1
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