Qin'an

Qin·an
/ˈt͡ʃɪnˈɑn//-æn/

proper noun

A county of Tianshui, Gansu, in northwestern China.

OriginMandarin 秦安 →
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Meanings

proper noun
  1. A county of Tianshui, Gansu, in northwestern China.

    In 1967, 17 bronzes of the Chin Dynasty¹ (221-207 B.C.) were excavated at Shangyuanchia, Chinan County.

    New Archaeological Finds in China: Discoveries During the Cultural Revolution

    [1972, Hsin-wen Lan, “Finds from Kansu”, in 中国新出土文物 [New Archaeological Finds in China: Discoveries During the Cultural Revolution], Peking: Foreign Languages Press, →OCLC, page 30
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    Likewise, the magistrate of Ch’in-an county in Kansu thought it by no means unreasonable from the fiscal point of view to report in 1535 so disproportionate a population as one of 12,424 males and 6,099 females.

    [1959, Ping-ti Ho, “The Nature of Ming Population Data”, in Studies on the Population of China, 1368-1953, Harvard University Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, page iv, 12

    Linwei, eighty li southeast of Qin’an county in Gansu, was the administrative center of Lueyang commandery (Dushi fangyu jiyao 59/2596; Zang 1936:849.1, 1293.1).

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    1998, “Li Te [李特]”, in Great Perfection: Religion and Ethnicity in a Chinese Millennial Kingdom [大成], Honolulu: University of Hawaiʻi Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 117

    Dadiwan Site is located in the gentle hillsides on the south bank of Qingshui River in Qinan County, Tianshui City. The earliest site dates from 7,800 years ago, and the most recent site dates from 4,800 years ago.

    [2008, “Northwest China”, in Chen Xuejian, editor, Travel Around China, HarperCollins, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 263, column 3

Origin

  1. Mandarin秦安
  2. EnglishQin'an

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 秦安 (Qín'ān).

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Translations

Chinese Cantonese 秦安
  • 秦安county
Chinese Mandarin 秦安
  • 秦安 (Qín'ān)county
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