Jiyuan

Ji·yuan
J8I1Y4U1A1N1

proper noun

A sub-prefectural city of Henan, China.

Scrabble 16

Meanings

proper noun

alternative Chiyuan · alternative Chi-yüan

  1. A sub-prefectural city of Henan, China.

    Three lead smelters in Jiyuan city in Henan, China’s top lead producing province, phased out 150,000 tonnes a year of capacity in the first half of the year on environment issues, sources at two of the smelters said on Wednesday.

    2010 June 30, Polly Yam, “Three lead smelters in China Jiyuan phase out capacity -sources”, in Ed Lane, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 01 Mar 2023, MINING & METALS - SPECIALTY
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    The River Ch'in, he explains, rises in Shansi and after entering Honan at Chi-yüan continues its course through the two districts of Ho-nei and Wuchih until it joins the Tatan River and eventually empties itself into the Yellow River.

    [1891 January 2 [1890 November 29], “River Administration in Honan”, in North-China Herald, volume XLVI, number 1222, Shanghai, →OCLC, page 11, column 2

    Since the 1970s, models of pottery winnowing-machines have been unearthed continually in Jiyuan and Luoyang, at the Henan province and in Ruicheng, at the Shanxi province. Among them, a winnowing-machine model unearthed in Sijiangou, Jiyuan could be traced back to the period of the Western Han (Fig. 23) [13].

    2009, F. Lisheng, T. Qingjun, “Crank-Connecting Rod Mechanism”, in International Symposium on History of Machines and Mechanisms, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 247

Origin

  1. Mandarin濟源 /济源
  2. EnglishJiyuan

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 濟源 /济源 (Jǐyuán).

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Translations

Chinese Cantonese 濟源 /济源
  • 濟源 /济源 (zai³ jyun⁴)sub-prefectural city
Chinese Mandarin 濟源 /济源
  • 濟源 /济源 (Jǐyuán)sub-prefectural city
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APA

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Chicago

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