Shanyin

See also: shānyīn

English

Etymology

From Mandarin 山陰／山阴 (Shānyīn).

Proper noun

Shanyin

1. A county of Shuozhou, Shanxi, China.
   • 2010 December 13, Eric Ng, “Modernisation drive leaves trail of ghost mines”, in South China Morning Post‎^[1], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 28 January 2024, Latest‎^[2]:

     One example is the Youyi mine in Shanyin county, a district of Shanxi under the administration of Shuozhou city. […]
     In Shanyin, 20 out of 21 mines have been ordered to shut down and be overhauled, said the mine's managing director, Sun Chuntian. […]
     Of Shanyin county's 21 coal mines, the number closed for reconstruction and revamp is: 20

   • 2011 September 17, Carrie Ho, “ChinaCoal's Shaanxi^{[sic – meaning Shanxi]} mines closed after fatal accident”, in Ruth Pitchford, editor, Reuters‎^[3], archived from the original on 2023-08-11, Environment‎^[4]:

     China National Coal Group Corp’s (ChinaCoal) mining operations in north Shaanxi^{[sic – meaning Shanxi]} Province were suspended after eight miners died in a colliery flooding at one of the company’s subsidiaries there, state media Xinhua News reported. […]
     The workers’ bodies were retrieved on Saturday after they had been trapped underground in the flooded coal mine in Shanyin County a day ago.

2. (historical) A county of Zhejiang, China, part of modern-day Shaoxing.
   • 1960, Tse-tsung (周策縱) Chow, “The Initial Phase of the Movement: Early Literary and Intellectual Activities, 1917-1919”, in The May Fourth Movement: Intellectual Revolution in Modern China‎^[5], Harvard University Press, published 1980, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 47:

     Ts’ai Yüan-p’ei (also named Ho-ch’ing and Chieh-min) (1876-1940) was born in Shanyin County, Chekiang Province. He passed the second civil service examination in 1889 and the third in 1892 which secured for him the highest degree, han-lin.

Translations

county

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 山陰／山阴 (zh) (Shānyīn)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Shanyin”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[6], volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 2886, column 1
• Shanyin, Shan-yin at Google Ngram Viewer