Yesanguan

Ye·san·guan
Y4E1S1A1N1G2U1A1N1

proper noun

A town in Badong, Enshi prefecture, Hubei, China.

Scrabble 13

Meanings

proper noun

alternative Yehsankwan · alternative Yeh-san-kuan

  1. A town in Badong, Enshi prefecture, Hubei, China.

    The suspension bridge is situated in the remote Yesanguan Town of Badong County, Enshi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture, over Sidu River.

    2016 May 17, Sophie Williams, “Now THAT'S a high-way! Spectacular aerial images show China's impressive mountain overpass built over a 1,630ft valley”, in Daily Mail MailOnline, archived from the original on 18 May 2016
    3 more examples

    Under public pressure, Hubei officials freed her on bail. Mr. Wu helped recruit a prominent Beijing law firm to represent Ms. Deng. On May 22, Beijing censors ordered Web sites to stop reporting on the case. Four days later, television and the Internet were cut off in Yesanguan, the town where the attack occurred.

    2009 June 16, Michael Wines, “Civic-Minded Chinese Find a Voice Online”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 29 Jan 2010, Asia Pacific

    This bridge is a 0.7 mile (1.1 km) long suspension bridge spanning the deeply carved valley of the Sidu River near Yesanguan in Badong County, in the southwest of China's Hubei Province.

    2013, Wolfgang Kunth, editor, Terra Maxima: the Records of Humankind, Firefly Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 374

    The Sidu River Bridge is located in Yesanguan Town, Badong County, Enshi Prefecture, Hubei, and formulates an essential link in the Yichang — Enshi section of Shanghai — Chengdu National Highway. Its main structure is a truss girder suspension bridge 900m in main span length (Fig. 1).

    2013, Bridge and Structural Engineering Branch, China Highway and Transportation Society, editor, Innovation-Oriented Contemporary Chinese Bridges, Paths International, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 210

Origin

  1. Mandarin野三關 /野三关
  2. EnglishYesanguan

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 野三關 /野三关 (Yěsānguān).

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Translations

Chinese Cantonese 野三關 /野三关
  • 野三關 /野三关town in central China
Chinese Mandarin 野三關 /野三关
  • 野三關 /野三关 (Yěsānguān)town in central China
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