Huayin

Hua·yin
H4U1A1Y4I1N1

proper noun

A county-level city of Weinan, Shaanxi, China.

Scrabble 12

Meanings

proper noun

alternative Hua-yin

  1. A county-level city of Weinan, Shaanxi, China.

    HUAYIN IS THE TOWN at the base of the holy mountain of Huashan.

    1988, Michael Buckley, Cycling to Xian and other excursions, Crazyhorse Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 112
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    Mistress Yang was born in 718 in the little town of Huayin in the province of Shensi,² through which the modern Lunghai railway runs on its way from Ch'angan to the sea.

    1956, Bernard Llewellyn, “The Queen of Concubines Yang Kuei-fei”, in China's Courts and Concubines, London: George Allen & Unwin, →OCLC, page 92

    I visited Hua Shan in the summer of 1935. It was an easy place to reach because the train to Sian stopped conveniently at a little place called Hua Yin, which means ‘under the shadow of Hua Shan’. The Hua Shan massif did indeed dominate Hua Yin.

    1987, Hedda Morrison, Travels of a Photographer in China, 1933-1946, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 52, 244

    The place where Huashan’s Taoist caretaker gave Yao this advice is known as Huafeng. It’s about three kilometers east of the present county seat of Huayin. Unfortunately, the last artifacts of the former sacrificial center were destroyed in 1958 during Mao’s Great Leap Forward, and the site is now better known for the neolithic remains discovered there since then. Two other shrines have also disappeared. One built at the beginning of the Chou dynasty south of Huayin has become Huashan High School.

    1993, Bill Porter, Road to Heaven, San Francisco: Mercury House, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, pages 61–62

    But, the 4 billion yuan project was a failure and instead intensified flooding in Huayin, a county-level city under Weinan, where the Wei River - a tributary of the Yellow River - flowed backwards because its river bed was raised by more than 5 metres. In the 1960s, the central government scaled back the project.

    2006 October 2, “Mao's ill-conceived dam still a curse for villagers”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 15 May 2021, Latest

    Police in Huayin in the northwestern province of Shaanxi made the “criminal detentions” earlier this month, suspecting the three of “inciting to subvert state power”, Ruan Xiuqin, wife of Chen Sizhong, one of the farmers, told Reuters by telephone.

    2007 December 24, Shipeng Guo, Benjamin Kang Lim, “China detains farmers urging land privatization”, in Lindsay Beck, Roger Crabb, editors, Reuters, archived from the original on 11 Mar 2023, World News

Origin

  1. Mandarin華陰 /华阴
  2. EnglishHuayin

From Mandarin 華陰 /华阴 (Huàyīn).

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Translations

Chinese Cantonese 華陰 /华阴
  • 華陰 /华阴 (waa⁶ jam¹)county-level city
Chinese Mandarin 華陰 /华阴
  • 華陰 /华阴 (Huàyīn)county-level city
Hindi हुआइन
  • हुआइन (huāin)county-level city
Japanese 華陰
  • 華陰 (kain)county-level city

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