Meanings
- alternativeAlternative form of Kangding.
The expedition, which is under the leadership of Arnold Heim, German natural scientist, and Karl Krejel-Graf, has made its headquarters at K’ang-ting, capital of Szechuan, and is surveying the ranges which stretch 800 miles westward to Batang.
1931 February 27, Christian Science Monitor, quotee, “China's Unknown Peaks Explored”, in The Gateway, volume XXI, number 16, University of Alberta, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 3, column 42 more examples
24. K'ANG-TING-TATSIENLU 打箭鑪 (12, 13, 25, 26) The city of K’ang-ting, better known to the western reader as Tatsienlu, is the provincial capital of Hsikang. The district of K’ang-ting, which is governed from the city of the same name, covers a very wide area extending over parts of both the Ta-tu valley and the Ya-lung valley.
1967, Chêng Tê-k’un, Archaeological Studies in Szechwan, Cambridge University Press, →OCLC, page 44On 26.2.46, under the charge of a Chinese escort, the two missionaries were conducted to Ta-Tsien-lu (= K’ang-ting / Kangding) and twelve days later arrived at Ch’eng-tu (= Chengdu), where they found that a warrant had been issued for their arrest.
2004, Raymond John Howgego, “HUC, Evariste Régis”, in Encyclopedia of Exploration 1800 to 1850, Hordern House, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 291, column 2
Origin
- Mandarin康定
- EnglishK'ang-ting
From Mandarin 康定 (Kāngdìng), Wade–Giles romanization: Kʻang¹-ting⁴.
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