Yongshou

Yong·shou
Y4O1N1G2S1H4O1U1

proper noun

A county of Xianyang, Shaanxi, China.

Scrabble 15

Meanings

proper noun
  1. A county of Xianyang, Shaanxi, China.

    Yongshou County is located in the central part of the north of Weibei region in Shaanxi[…]Dengjiapo Village is located 45 km northwest of Yongshou County.

    2019, Tian Yonggang et al., “Organic Renewal of Sunken Yaodongs in Guanzhong: A Case study of Dengjiapo village in Yongshou County, Xianyang, Shaanxi”, in Journal of Landscape Research, volume 11, number 2, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 21 Aug 2024, page 110, column 1
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    There was little poppy cultivation to note during the day : when nearing the uplands after leaving Pin Chou I saw a man carrying a bundle of poppy-stalks, with capsules, down hill and near the village of Ti-yao-kou, ten miles from Yung-shou Hsien, but still within the department of Pin Chou, I observed one field of poppy-stems with capsules from which the opium had been collected. Between Pin Chou and Yung-shou Hsien the cart traffic was the heaviest I had seen since leaving Lan-chou.

    [1914, Alexander Hosie, On the Trail of the Opium Poppy, volume I, Boston: Small, Maynard & Company, →OCLC, page 165

    Yongshou County to the north-west of Xi’an has also seen growth: from 1,200 Christians in just one church in 1992 to over 4,000 baptised believers in thirteen churches in 1996.

    1999, Tony Lambert, “A survey of church growth, province by province”, in China's Christian Millions, Monarch Books, published 2006, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 265

    Plan’s small-sum loan project has been implemented in Yongshou County, Shaanxi Province. (Now Plan has been trying out the project in 14 selected places in Hebei, Gansu, Guizhou and Shaanxi provinces as well as Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region.)

    中国的和平发展系列

    2007, Shen Honglei [申宏磊], Lei Xiangqing [雷向晴], “International NGO Participation in China's Poverty Reduction Efforts”, in Zhou Xiaogang [周晓刚], transl., International Aid Projects for Poverty Alleviation in China [国际扶贫援助项目在中国] (China in Peaceful Development [中国的和平发展系列]), Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 82

Origin

  1. Mandarin永壽 /永寿
  2. EnglishYongshou

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 永壽 /永寿 (Yǒngshòu).

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Translations

Chinese Cantonese 永壽 /永寿
  • 永壽 /永寿county
Chinese Mandarin 永壽 /永寿
  • 永壽 /永寿 (Yǒngshòu)county
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