Tongchuan

See also: tóngchuán

English

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 銅川／铜川 (Tóngchuān).

Proper noun

Tongchuan

1. A prefecture-level city in Shaanxi, China.
   • [1973, Chiao-min Hsieh, “North China”, in Christopher L. Salter, editor, Atlas of China‎^[1], McGraw-Hill, Inc., →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 125, column 2:

     Shensi has abundant coal deposits distributed throughout the province, one of the largest being at T’ung-ch’uan.]

   • 2006 October 29, “Briefly: 2 managers are jailed in blast that killed 166 - Asia - Pacific - International Herald Tribune”, in The New York Times‎^[2], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 29 December 2022, Asia Pacific‎^[3]:

     The blast, one of the worst in China in decades, hit the Chenjiashan coal mine in Tongchuan in the northwestern province of Shaanxi just days after the pit had caught fire.

Translations

prefecture-level city

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 銅川／铜川 (zh) (Tóngchuān)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can

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