Menyuan

Men·yuan
M3E1N1Y4U1A1N1

proper noun

A Hui autonomous county in Haibei, Qinghai, China.

Scrabble 12

Meanings

proper noun
  1. A Hui autonomous county in Haibei, Qinghai, China.

    Jen-to-ch’üan roughly corresponds to the seat of modern Men-yüan county in Tsinghai province.

    [2009, Ari Daniel Levine, “The Reigns of Hui-tsung (1100-1126) and Ch’in-tsung (1126-1127) and the Fall of the Northern Sung”, in The Cambridge History of Ancient China, volume 5, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 621
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    The revolutionary committee of the Menyuan Hui Autonomous County recently called a conference to stir up an upsurge in agricultural mechanization throughout the country.

    1968 August 8 [1968 August 6], “Menyuan Hui Calls Agricultural Conference”, in Daily Report: Communist China, volume I, number 155, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Sining Tsinghai Provincial Service, translation of original in Mandarin, →OCLC, Communist China: Northwest Region, page H 1

    […]in Qinghai's Gonghe County, being charged with illegal hunting and possession of 2,359 grams of marijuana. Similar caes from another location in Gonghe County and one in Menyuan county involving Pakistanis have been reported.

    1998, James D. Seymour, Richard Anderson, “Prisons and Human Rights”, in New Ghosts Old Ghosts Prisons and Labor Reform Camps in China, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 187

    China's official Xinhua news agency said there were no immediate reports of casualties from the tremor, which struck at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) in Menyuan county in Qinghai province. Phone services in Menyuan, home to around 150,000 people, were operating normally, it said.

    2016 January 20, Dean Yates, “Magnitude 6.1 earthquake hits central China, no reports of casualties”, in John Stonestreet, Toni Reinhold, editors, Reuters, archived from the original on 24 Jan 2016, Green Business

Origin

  1. Mandarin門源 /门源
  2. EnglishMenyuan

From the Mandarin 門源 /门源 (Ményuán).

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Translations

Chinese Mandarin 門源 /门源
  • 門源 /门源 (Ményuán)Hui autonomous county
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APA

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Chicago

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