Meanings
- alternativeAlternative form of Panzhihua.
Deposits of 150 million tons are in P'an-chih-hua in Yunnan.
1960 April 11, “New Mineral Resources Discovered”, in Weekly Report on Communist China, number 20, →OCLC, page 42 more examples
Sleeping at Pai-ta, which stands on a sort of little terrace in the hillside overlooking the Salween, we descended the next morning by an exceedingly steep path to what is often known as the P’an-chih-hua ferry. It should be more correctly called Chuan-shui, as the real P’an-chih-hua is a mile or two lower down and is now disused as a ferry.
1909, Major H. R. Davies, Yün-Nan: The Link between India and the Yangtze, Cambridge University Press, →OCLC, →OL, page 194The copper-nickel deposits which are related to diorite, gabbro, pyroxenite, and dunite intrusives in pre-Sinian metamorphic rocks were also reported from east of Pʻan-chih-hua in the north-south folded belt of Yunnan and Sikang provinces
1961, Sciences in Communist China: A Symposium Presented at the New York Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, December 26-27, 1960, American Association for the Advancement of Science, →OCLC, page 505
Origin
- Mandarin攀枝花
- EnglishP'an-chih-hua
From Mandarin 攀枝花 (Pānzhīhuā) Wade–Giles romanization: Pʻan¹-chih¹-hua¹.
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