Meanings
- alternativeAlternative form of Hunchun.
Japanese troops have been sent to Hun-chun, Kirin province, China, to protect Japanese interests there, as the result of an attack upon the Japanese consulate by 400 bandits, mainly Chinese and Koreans, according to a statement issued yesterday by the Japanese Embassy.
1920 October 8, “Japanese Troops Sent to Hun-chun”, in The Christian Science Monitor, volume XII, number 274, Boston, sourced from The Christian Science Monitor Washington News Office, Washington, District of Columbia, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 1, column 21 more example
A few days later I went to Hun-chun on the frontier of Chinese Manchuria, from its position an important military post, and was most hospitably received by the Commandant and his married aide-de-camp. There, as everywhere in Primorsk, and from the civil as well as the military authorities, I not only received the utmost kindness, courtesy, and hospitality, but information was frankly given on the various topics I was interested in, and help towards the attainment of my objects. Hun-chun is in the midst of mountainous country, denuded of wood in recent years, and abounding in rich, well-watered valleys inhabited only by Koreans. A wilder, drearier, and more wind-swept situation it would be hard to find.
1898, Isabella Bishop, “The Korean Frontier”, in Korea & Her Neighbours: A Narrative of Travel, with an Account of the Recent Vicissitudes and present position of the Country, volume II, London: John Murray, →OCLC, page 19
Origin
- Mandarin琿春 /珲春
- EnglishHun-chun
From Mandarin 琿春 /珲春 (Húnchūn), Wade–Giles romanization: Hun²-chʻun¹.
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