Meanings
- alternativeAlternative form of Yinchuan.
Yin-ch'uan is now in Ningsia Hui Autonomous Region, which was established in October 1958.
1967, Nai-Ruenn Chen, Chinese Economic Statistics: A Handbook for Mainland China, Chicago: Aldine Publishing Company, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1313 more examples
The Chinese Academy of Sciences held a confetence^([sic – meaning conference]) on sand control recently at Yin-ch'uan for the purpose of examining the results of 8 years of research in sand control on the T'eng-ko'li^([sic – meaning T'eng-ko-li]) Desert.
1963 November 18, Scientific Information Report Chinese Science, number 37, Washington, D.C.: Foreign Documents Division, CIA, page 136At Yin-ch'uan, Ninghsia Province, local phosphate ore and anthracite were being used to make phosphorus.
1977, K. P. Wang, Mineral Resources and Basic Industries in the People's Republic of China, Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 189A horse market was set up in 727 on the upper reaches of the Yellow River at Yin-chʻuan, whither the Turks came to sell their beasts in exchange for silks and metals.
1996, Jacques Gernet, translated by J. R. Foster and Charles Hartman, A History of Chinese Civilization, 2nd edition, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 250
Origin
- Mandarin銀川 /银川
- EnglishYin-ch'uan
From Mandarin 銀川 /银川 (Yínchuān), Wade–Giles romanization: Yin²-chʻuan¹.
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