Qimen
English
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editEtymology
editFrom the Hanyu Pinyin[1] romanization of Mandarin 祁門/祁门 (Qímén).
Proper noun
editQimen
- A county of Huangshan, Anhui, China.
- [1978, Yu-min Chuang (Yu-ming Chong) [莊育民], “The Historical Development in Acupunctural Medicine [歷史上的發展]”, in Historical Review of the Development of the Chinese Acupuncture [中國鐵灸發展史][2], Taipei, →OCLC, page 106:
- Wong lived during the Ming Dynasty in Chimen county, Anhui province; his style was Hsing Tse (省之).
- [original: 明代祁門(安徽省)人,字省之。]]
- 2014 May 14, Kate Kelland, “Scientists, drugmakers, charities sign UK deal on animal research”, in Larry King, editor, Reuters[3], archived from the original on 29 April 2022[4]:
- Macaques look out from their cell at the Anhui Provincial Experimental Macaque Training Center in Qimen county, Anhui province, November 19, 2008.
Translations
editcounty in eastern China
References
edit- ^ Shabad, Theodore (1972) “Index”, in China's Changing Map[1], New York: Frederick A. Praeger, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 345, 354:
- Chinese place names are listed in three common spelling styles: […] (1) the Post Office system, […] (2) the Wade-Giles system, […] shown after the main entry […] (3) the Chinese Communists' own Pinyin romanization system, which also appears in parentheses […] Kimen (Ch'i-men, Qimen)
Further reading
edit- Qimen, Ch'i-men, Chi-men, Chimen at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.
- Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Qinmen”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World[5], volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 2546, column 2
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