cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Zhouzhi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: jōʹjûʹ
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 周至 (zhōuzhì).
Senses: examples: text: Although data on state farms in recent years are sketchy, their general situation and problems appear to be essentially the same as they were in the 1950s and the 1960s. At a provincewide symposium of state-owned agricultural and animal husbandry enterprises, convened in Chouchih, Shensi Province, in May 1975, the participants were told that although the proportion of the enterprises in the entire rural economy was "still not great," they occupied an important position in China's socialist agriculture.
ref: [1976, Leslie T. C. Kuo, Agriculture in the People's Republic of China: Structural Changes and Technical Transformation, Praeger Publishers, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 50:
text: The Chouchih County CCP Committee has once again organized 190,000 people to go in for harnessing the Wei River.
ref: [1978 January 25 [1978 January 17], “Shensi Farmland Capital Construction”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China, volume I, number 17, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Sian Shensi Provincial Service, translation of original in Mandarin, →ISSN, →OCLC, People's Republic of China: Northwest Region, page M 2:
text: The Lao River lies to the south-west of Xian within Zhouzhi and Huxian Counties.
ref: 1991 [1987], Zou Zongxu, translated by Susan Whitfield, The Land Within the Passes: A History of Xian, Viking, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 15:
text: More than 100 taxi drivers who crowded a town square in Zhouzhi county, in northwestern Shaanxi province, went back to work on Tuesday after authorities promised to crack down on unlicensed cabs, the Beijing News said.
ref: 2008 November 25, Ian Ransom, “Cabbies in two Chinese cities call off strikes”, in Nick Macfie, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 10 Apr 2023, Latest Crisis:
glosses: A county of Xi'an, Shaanxi, China.
Zhouzhi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: jōʹjûʹ
Forms: form: Chou-chih
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 盩厔 (Zhōuzhì).
Senses: examples: text: In the past year Chouchih County in Shensi Province has formed a technical group which can design and build small power stations and make small generators or transformers.
ref: [1960 July 19, “Rural Electrification–The Mass Way”, in Peking Review, volume III, number 29, →OCLC, page 4, column 2:
text: This song explains that the fine climate of Zhouzhi produced admirable figures like Lanqing and Zhang Fu'ao.
ref: 2010, Tian Yuan Tan, Songs of Contentment and Transgression: Discharged Officials and Literati Communities in Sixteenth-Century North China, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 105:
glosses: A former name for a county of Xi'an, Shaanxi, China.
Huyi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Mandarin 鄠邑.
Senses: examples: text: In Shijing town in Xi’an’s Huyi district, authorities tore down a Catholic church at the end of December, sparking a protest by around 300 church followers who gathered later in front of district government offices with banners calling for the right to religious freedom, local sources said.
ref: 2018 January 8, Qiao Long, Richard Finney, “Chinese Authorities Demolish One Church, Close Another, in December”, in Chen Ping, transl., Radio Free Asia, archived from the original on 09 Jan 2018:
text: To improve our understanding of PTE accumulation in peripheral areas of cities, soil samples from different parts of Huyi District, Xi’an city were collected, and the concentrations of As, Pb, V, Cr, Cu, Mn, Co, and Zn were determined through X-ray fluorescence spectrometry.
ref: 2021 August 23, Xiuduan Chen, Xinwei Lu, “Contamination characteristics and source apportionment of potentially toxic elements in the topsoil of Huyi District, Xi’an City, China”, in Environmental Earth Sciences, volume 80, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC:
text: I want to put into relief here one single aspect of that which creates the abyss between us and the villagers of Huxian⁴: Chinese women, the Chinese family, their tradition, their present revolution.
ref: 2022, Kerry Brown, Gemma Chenger Deng, “Feminine China: Julia Kristeva”, in China Through European Eyes: 800 Years of Cultural and Intellectual Encounter, World Scientific, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 201:
glosses: A district of Xi'an, Shaanxi, China.
Yanta
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: yěnʹtäʹ
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 雁塔.
Senses: examples: text: It was an unusual case for Yanta District People’s Intermediate Court in Xi’an, Shaanxi Province on March 25. The suspect was standing in court wearing a white mask and rubber gloves and the bailiffs were keeping their distance. It was because the defendant, Mu, had AIDS.
ref: 2004 April 2, Jinliang Shan, “Don't Stand So Close to Him”, in Beijing Today, number 148, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 6, column 1:
text: It’s cloudy at dusk at the Xi’an Huoche Zhan, 6:40PM Monday evening, when they step out into the night.[…]
FONG takes them to his cousin’s Hupan Hostel, a 1980s row house conversion in the Yanta District.[…]
The Xi’an gang driver, Jinfeng, follows Henry FONG with DONG ZhiWei and WEI ZengJiu in a black Brilliance.
ref: 2015, Sha Li, “Jintian wo hui dao Beijing Today I return to Beijing”, in Wounds of Attachment, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 27:
text: On Sunday, Xi'an announced that two senior Communist Party officials from the Yanta district had been removed from their posts, according to local media, in a bid to "strengthen the work of epidemic prevention and control" in the area.
ref: 2022 January 3, “China removes two officials in locked-down Xi'an”, in France 24, archived from the original on 03 Jan 2022:
text: Officials have been put on notice that they will lose their jobs if they don’t bring the numbers of new cases down. Already, the top two Communist Party officials in Yanta district, where half the city’s cases have been recorded, have been sacked and the deputy mayor placed in charge.
ref: 2022 January 4, Ken Moritsugu, “Conditions hard for 13 million under China virus lockdown”, in AP News, archived from the original on 04 Jan 2022:
glosses: A district of Xi'an, Shaanxi, China.
Beilin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: bāʹlǐnʹ
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 北林 (Běilín).
Senses: examples: text: The Chinese state news media identified the man as the deputy director of a government poverty alleviation agency in the Beilin district of Suihua, a city in Heilongjiang Province.[…]
Government offices in the city of Suihua and the district of Beilin, as well as the Beilin district police, did not respond to requests for comment.
ref: 2021 April 14, Tiffany May, “Her Boss Sent Harassing Texts. So She Beat Him With a Mop.”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 14 Apr 2021, Asia Pacific:
glosses: A district of Suihua, Heilongjiang, China.
Beilin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: bāʹlǐnʹ
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 碑林 (Bēilín).
Senses: examples: text: Downtown Xi'an is divided between two districts, Beilin and Lianhu. The vibrant Beilin District comprises the core downtown area within the city wall and some territory east and south of it. Beilin has more than it: fair share of ancient sites, but it's modern as well, home to upscale malls high-end hotels, and 17 universities.
ref: 2006, Living Abroad in China, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 390:
text: A gathering place for intellectuals in the past, the antique bookstore located in Xi’an’s Beilin District has become a part of the life of some old local residents and an almost spiritual place among intellectuals. Covering about 900 square meters, the bookstore also collects and preserves old books.
ref: 2020 October 14, Information Office of Xi'an Municipal Government, “A city steeped in literary tradition is writing a new chapter”, in Reuters, archived from the original on 22 Jun 2022, #Paid Content:
glosses: A district of Xi'an, Shaanxi, China.
Lianhu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /liˈænːhu/
ipa: /liˈɛnːhu/
ipa: /liˈɑːnːhu/
rhymes: -uː
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 蓮湖／莲湖 (Liánhú).
Senses: examples: text: […]the Party committee of Peiyuanmen commune of Lienhu ch'u in Sian municipality has since the year before last set up outside-school cultural activity centers in the commune headquarters and in various neighborhood committees.
ref: [1973, Survey of China Mainland Press, numbers 5308-5345, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 52:
text: The Qingnian Road Neighbourhood in the Lianhu District in particular has received foreigners.
ref: 1984, Simon Holledge, “Period Six: Xi'an under the People's Republic”, in Xi'an, South China Printing, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 86:
text: On December 7, 1983, the branch bureau dragged in many people and sent dozens of armed men with a prison van to pull down a 12-square-meter asphalt felt shed in the backyard of Guo’s house (142, Qingnian Street, Xian City). By order of Liang Ping, vice president of the Lianhu District Court, they brutally raided Guo’s family!
ref: 1986, Binyan Liu, “The Rights and Wrongs over the Past Thirty-Eight Years”, in Policy Conflicts in Post-Mao China: A Documentary Survey, with Analysis, M. E. Sharpe, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 165:
text: Downtown Xi'an is divided between two districts, Beilin and Lianhu.[…]
Lianhu District's apartments typically rent for $150-250 a month, though it is possible to find very modest places for less than $100 or large four-bedroom flats renting as high as a whopping $400.
ref: 2006, Stuart Strother, Barbara Strother, “Xi'an 西安”, in Living Abroad in China, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 390:
text: Wang Fengying and her co-accused Yang Janglin^([sic – meaning Jianglin]) said she was called Princess Changping and persuaded people to lend them money to help them get back assets worth billions of dollars held by authorities, the Lianhu District Court in Shaanxi province said.
ref: 2015 September 9, “Chinese farmer pretended to be princess to commit fraud”, in AP News, archived from the original on 13 Oct 2022:
glosses: A district of Xi'an, Shaanxi, China.
Weiyang
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: wāʹyängʹ
Etymology: From Mandarin 未央 (Wèiyāng).
Senses: examples: text: The city of Xian's Intermediate People's Court called a judgment pronouncement meeting on 26 July and had seven major criminals, including Fu Beizhan and Lang Maolin, executed according to the law.
The criminal Fu Beizhan, who was charged with intentional homicide, was from Dibaozi village of Sanqiao town, Weiyang District, Xian.
ref: 1991 August 22 [1991 July 28], Chen Li (7115 6849) [陈里], Qin Chuan (4440 1557) [秦川], “Xian Executes Seven Severe Criminals”, in Daily Report: China, number 91-163, sourced from Xian SHAANXI RIBAO 28 Jul 91 p 2, translation of original in Chinese, →ISSN, →OCLC, Regional Affairs, page 51, column 2:
english: 秦川
translation: 秦川
text: Starting at the north city gate, the Weiyang District is home to the Xi'an ETDZ (Economic and Technology Development Zone).
ref: 2006, Living Abroad in China, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 391:
text: A man living in a newly constructed building in Xian, the capital of Shaanxi province, was unable to obtain a birth registration form for his pregnant wife because no district was officially assigned to the building.
The problem was the building was in the northwestern province’s Weiyang district, but built by another district government.
ref: 2018 August 18, Windy Li, “Heartaches, headaches and hukou: how China’s bureaucracy tangled people in red tape”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 18 Aug 2018, People & Culture:
text: The exhibition will run until March 20. Xi’an IMIX PARK, where the exhibition is held, is conveniently located in the city’s Weiyang district, an area known for economic development and robust business activity.
ref: 2022 February 13, “China-Chic Art Exhibition Flourishing Recall of Tang Dynasty opens at Xi’an IMIX PARK”, in AP News, PR Newswire, archived from the original on 13 Feb 2022:
glosses: A district of Xi'an, Shaanxi, China.
Baqiao
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌbɑːˈt͡ʃjaʊ/
enpr: bäʹchyouʹ
Forms: form: Pa-ch'iao
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 灞橋 /灞桥.
Senses: examples: text: In 1957 several dozen pieces of coarse paper were found in a Han dynasty tomb in Pachiao near Sian in Shensi province.
ref: [1972 June, “Who Invented Paper?”, in China Reconstructs, volume XXI, number 6, China Welfare Institute, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 20, columns 1–2:
text: Chen Zhongshi was born in 1942 in a village near Sian, Shanxi province.[...]He is at present working at the Cultural Center, Baqiao district, Sian.
ref: 1983, “Author's Biographies”, in Helen Siu, Zelda Stern, editors, Mao's Harvest: Voices from China's New Generation, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page Ii:
text: The drapery details around the ankles are also similar to the flattened and scalloped drapery visible at the ankles of the five monumental Buddhas recently unearthed in Wanzi village, in the Baqiao district of Xi’an (see Zhao Liguang’s essay, figs. 1-4, 5).
ref: 2007, Annette L. Juliano, “Buddhist Sculpture and the Beilin Collection: A Perspective”, in Buddhist Sculpture from China: Selections from the Xi’an Beilin Museum: Fifth through Ninth Centuries, New York: China Institute, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 9, column 1:
text: In this paper, situation and trend of vegetable industry in Xinzhu subdistrict Baqiao district Xi’an city were analyzed, development course of the industry after liberation was briefly reviewed, current situation and main achievements were studied as well as main problems by means of literature consulting, area investigation, units inquiry and statistical analysis.
ref: 2008, Li Wei [李维], “Study on Development of Vegetable Industry in Xinzhu [新筑蔬菜产业发展研究]”, in Northwest A&F University (Thesis), archived from the original on 08 Sep 2024:
english: 本文采用查阅资料、实地调查、走访单位、统计分析的方法,分析了国内外蔬菜产业发展现状与趋势,简要回顾了西安市灞桥区新筑街道办建国后蔬菜产业发展历程,研究了新筑蔬菜产业发展现状和取得的主要成效,分析了新筑蔬菜产业发展中存在的突出问题。
translation: 本文采用查阅资料、实地调查、走访单位、统计分析的方法,分析了国内外蔬菜产业发展现状与趋势,简要回顾了西安市灞桥区新筑街道办建国后蔬菜产业发展历程,研究了新筑蔬菜产业发展现状和取得的主要成效,分析了新筑蔬菜产业发展中存在的突出问题。
glosses: A district of Xi'an, Shaanxi, China.
Gaoling
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: gouʹlǐngʹ
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 高陵 (Gāolíng).
Senses: examples: text: On 22 January, 140 young couples held a collective marriage ceremony in Kaoling County.[…]
In the struggle to expose and criticize the gang of four, the Kaoling County CCP Committee has resolved to grasp destroying the old and establishing the new, holding thrifty weddings and conducting education in late marriage as a major matter.
ref: [1978 February 8 [1978 February 3], “Shensi County Holds Collective Marriage Ceremony”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China, volume I, number 27, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Sian Shensi Provincial Service, translation of original in Mandarin, →ISSN, →OCLC, People's Republic of China: Northwest Region, page M 4:
text: The discovery of a woman’s corpse in an elevator in the Chinese city of Xi’an has led to the detention of an elevator maintenance crew who improperly cut off power to the elevator a month ago without checking if anyone was inside
In a statement posted Saturday, the Gaoling district government said two maintenance workers turned off the power source on Jan. 30 to the elevator in a residential building after they were called to check on a glitch.
ref: 2016 March 6, “Chinese woman dies in elevator with power improperly cut off”, in AP News, archived from the original on 31 May 2022:
text: But now this death in Xi’an — the northwestern city famed for its ancient entombed terra-cotta warriors — has stirred protest and a nationwide roar of anger by people furious that lax building management that can turn trivial acts, like riding an elevator, into fatal traps, news reports and Internet accounts said on Monday.
Hundreds of residents in the Gaoling District of the city, where the woman died confined between the 10th and 11th floors of her apartment building, gathered to rally last week, according to photographs and accounts on Chinese websites.
ref: 2016 March 7, Chris Buckley, “Death of Chinese Woman Trapped in Elevator for Month Stokes Uproar”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 07 Mar 2016, Asia Pacific:
text: In October 2016, authorities cracked down on a citizen protest involving thousands in Gaoling district of Xi'an, Shaanxi Province, also over a planned incinerator. Public security bureau officials reportedly took hundreds of participants into custody, beat protestors, did not allow journalists to cover the demonstrations, and censored internet postings (CHRD 2017b).
ref: 2019, Anna Brettell, “Examining China's compliance to emerging international norms regarding environmental rights”, in Sarah Biddulph, Joshua Rosenzweig, editors, Handbook on Human Rights in China, Edward Elgar Publishing, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 192:
glosses: A district of Xi'an, Shaanxi, China.
Yanliang
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: yěnʹlyängʹ
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 閻良 /阎良.
Senses: examples: text: The outer suburbs of Xi’an, in which there are 108,000 hectares of farmland, are the municipality’s agricultural districts. The majority of the farmland is in the northern and north-eastern suburbs and the Yanliang District.
ref: 1985, Zhenglin Ma, “Xi'an: The Metropolis of North-West China”, in Victor F.S. Sit, editor, Chinese Cities: The Growth of the Metropolis Since 1949, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 161:
text: Yanliang district, 45 km from Xi'an, is China’s most important base for aircraft research, production and testing.
ref: 2004, Zhao Rong, Zheng Guo, “Shaanxi”, in Y. M. Yeung, Shen Jianfa, editors, Developing China's West: A Critical Path to Balanced National Development, Hong Kong: Chinese University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 366:
text: An official from Xian’s Yanliang district said on Sunday that 1,150 tonnes of vegetables have been delivered to about 115,600 households, adding to the 4,100 tonnes of vegetables being delivered to nearly 250,000 families in the urban Xincheng district.
ref: 2022 January 2, Jack Lau, “Covid-19 in China: Xian cases edge down on New Year’s Day after worst week of 2021”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 13 Jan 2022, Politics:
text: The Yueyang City site is located in the Yanliang district of Xi’an City, the capital of Shaanxi province. The district is about 840 miles northwest of Shanghai.
ref: 2023 February 16, Aspen Pflughoeft, “2,200-year-old flush toilet — oldest ever found — unearthed at palace ruins in China”, in Miami Herald, archived from the original on 19 Feb 2023, World:
glosses: A district of Xi'an, Shaanxi, China.
Lintong
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Lin-t'ung
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 臨潼 /临潼.
Senses: examples: text: On the morning of June 24, we drove east to Huaching Pool, which is outside the city of Sian. This time my tourist guide was a young lady. Huaching Pool is situated near the north side of Lishan Hill in Lintung County, twenty-five kilometers east of Sian.
ref: [1980, T. Y. Wong, “Sian—the Old Capital”, in My Y-Shaped Travels in China, 1st edition, Smithtown, New York: Exposition Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 35:
text: Vegetable farmers in the Lintong district of Xian, in Shaanxi province, were forced to plough over more than 10 hectares of celery growing in their fields last week after failing to find buyers, the Huashang Daily reported.
ref: 2016 June 13, Stephen Chen, “‘Tearful’ Chinese farmers lose tens of thousands of yuan as hot weather causes early celery harvest”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 16 Mar 2024, China:
text: The Xian housing bureau also expanded existing curbs to include one more district, Lintong. It said the new purchase rules take effect immediately.
ref: 2019 June 20, Yawen Chen, Ryan Woo, “China's top performing property market in May tightens purchase rules”, in Reuters, archived from the original on 21 Jun 2019, Asia:
glosses: A district of Xi'an, Shaanxi, China.
Hatherton
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Hathertons
Etymology: From Old English hagaþorn (“hawthorn”) + dūn (“hill”).
Senses: glosses: A hamlet and civil parish (served by Hatherton and Walgherton Parish Council) in Cheshire East district, Cheshire, England (OS grid ref SJ6847).
glosses: A village and civil parish near Cannock, South Staffordshire district, Staffordshire, England (OS grid ref SJ9510).
glosses: A habitational surname from Old English.
Zhen'an
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdʒɛnˌɑn/
ipa: /-æn/
enpr: jǔnʹänʹ
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 振安.
Senses: examples: text: Last August, the United Front Work Department in the Zhen’an district of Dandong, a prefecture-level city in the northeastern province of Liaoning, issued a document requiring the five officially-sanctioned religious organizations to launch a charity donation campaign.
ref: 2020 March 12, Jiang Tao, “Believers Forced to Prove Loyalty to the State with Money”, in Bitter Winter, archived from the original on 13 Mar 2020:
glosses: A district of Dandong, Liaoning, China.
Zhen'an
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdʒɛnˌɑn/
ipa: /-æn/
enpr: jǔnʹänʹ
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 鎮安 /镇安 (Zhèn'ān).
Senses: examples: text: Chenan County is one of Shensi's progressive counties in learning from Tachai. Leaders of the county CCP Committee have provided good examples in fighting in unity.
ref: [1978 February 21 [1978 February 18], “County in Shensi Carries out Rectification”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China, volume I, number 35, sourced from Sian Shensi Provincial Service, translation of original in Mandarin, →ISSN, →OCLC, page M 5:
text: [SHENSI DAILY 18 February untitled editor's note to a frontpage report by the joint investigation group of the Organization Department of the Shensi Provincial CCP Committee and the Shanglo Prefectural CCP Committee: "The Chenan County CCP Committee Has Taken Exposing and Criticizing the Gang of Four as the Key Link and, in Close Connection With Reality, Seriously Carried Out Rectification of the Party and the Style of Work"]
ref: [1978 February 21 [1978 February 18], “Praised by Shensi Daily”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China, volume I, number 35, sourced from Sian Shensi Provincial Service, translation of original in Mandarin, →ISSN, →OCLC, page M 6:
text: The Landsat photographs have also demonstrated clearly that the Longmen Mt. Deep Fracture extends towards the northeast after passing through the Hanzhong area, and then enters the Qinling Mts. to join with the Lintan-Shanyang Deep Fracture in the vicinity of Zhen’an County.
ref: 1987, Geotectonic Evolution of China, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 150:
text: The blast struck just before midnight on Tuesday outside an explosives warehouse, according to a statement from the Zhen’an county government in Shaanxi province posted on its official website.
ref: 2018 April 12, “Blast on truck carrying explosives in northern China kills 7”, in AP News, archived from the original on 14 Apr 2023:
glosses: A county of Shangluo, Shaanxi, China.
Zhashui
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: jäʹshwāʹ
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 柞水 (Zhàshuǐ).
Senses: examples: text: Members of the CCP committee of a certain PLA unit stationed in Shensi went to the companies and sentry-posts, to read out the 1 July joint editorial. It was also studied by the core group of the Chashui County Revolutionary Committee, which held an all-night forum.
ref: [1970 July 9 [1970 July 2], “Shensi Celebrates 49th CCP Founding Anniversary”, in Daily Report: Communist China, volume I, number 132, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Sian Shensi Provincial Service, translation of original in Mandarin, →OCLC, Communist China: Northwest Region, page H 4:
text: Shanglo regional CCP committee recently held a symposium on the campaign to criticize revisionism and rectify the style of work in the rural areas, which studied the New Year editorial and summed up experiences in popularizing the experiences of the state-owned No 1 cotton mill.[…]
At one stage the idea that 'criticizing revisionism and rectifying the style of work is just a gust of wind' appeared among the leading members of the Chashui County CCP Committee.
ref: [1973 January 15 [1973 January 13], “Shensi Region Holds Symposium on Criticizing Revisionism”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China, volume I, number 10, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Sian Shensi Provincial Service, translation of original in Mandarin, →ISSN, →OCLC, People's Republic of China Northwest Region, page H 2:
text: The book’s impressive statistics have a very human face, which I was able to see in 2007 on a visit to Zhashui County in Shaanxi Province with Lu Mai, the Secretary-General of the China Development Research Foundation, who plays a key role in organising the China Development Forum. Shaanxi is not a particularly poor province, but Zhashui County, located in the southern mountainous area, has an average annual per capita income of ¥1,300 ($188).
ref: 2014, Mark Moody-Stuart, Responsible Leadership: Lessons from the Front Line of Sustainability and Ethics, Greenleaf Publishing, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 237:
text: Police in Zhashui County, Shaanxi province were notified of 16 cars being maliciously smashed on Hexi Road in late July.
ref: 2015 August 14, “Drunk Man Smashes 16 Cars After Scolding”, in Beijing Today, number 740, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 3, column 4:
text: “A Date with China”, an international media tour with the theme of “On Road to Prosperity”, kicked off Monday morning in Zhashui county, Shangluo city of Northwest China’s Shaanxi province.[…]
“Families and individuals in many poverty-stricken regions in China like Zhashui county have shed off poverty and led well-off lives. This transformation of their destinies is a miracle from China’s fight against poverty,” he added.
ref: 2021 April 23, “‘A Date with China’ media tour kicks off in Shaanxi”, in AP News, PR Newswire, archived from the original on 14 Apr 2023:
glosses: A county of Shangluo, Shaanxi, China.
Shangnan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: shängʹnänʹ
Etymology: From Mandarin 商南.
Senses: examples: text: This action altered his behaviour for the time being, but in the evening he escaped again at the hsien-town of Shangnan.[...]At Shangnan the population was complaining of the same drought that had hindered us from getting a boat at Lungchüchai; and in the evening the villages formed a long procession firing crackers and beating gongs, in order to induce the rain-joss to send some water.
ref: 1923, Frits Holm, My Nestorian Adventure in China, Fleming H. Revell Company, →OCLC, →OL, pages 193–195:
text: Hu Xufeng, 36, a member of the People’s Congress of Shangnan county, Shaanxi province, claimed the unusually high level of compensation because his detention caused “destructive damage” to his business, he told news portal Thepaper.cn.
ref: 2016 August 11, Jun Mai, “Chinese lawmaker seeks 130m yuan compensation from police for ‘illegal’ detention”, in South China Morning Post, archived from the original on 15 Aug 2016, Policies & Politics:
text: A $43,000 system purchased by police in central China’s Shangnan county included a “foreign sensitive information” collection system that requested Uyghur and Tibetan staff translators, according to the contracts.
ref: 2021 December 31, Cate Cadell, “China harvests masses of data on Western targets, documents show”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 31 Dec 2021, National Security:
glosses: A county of Shangluo, Shaanxi, China.
Shangzhou
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 商州.
Senses: examples: text: Because this story was brought to light by Gao Lujie and other physicians of international renown, the Chinese government could only temporarily treat Gao as a “target of internal control.” But AIDS had already spread beyond Henan Province, and journalists who reported on a serious outbreak in the Shangzhou district of Shaanxi Province were investigated and prosecuted.
ref: 2007, Qinglian He, “Media Control in China”, in Sharon Hom, Stacy Mosher, editors, Challenging China: Struggle and Hope in an Era of Change, The New Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 40:
text: The girl said she had been repeatedly humiliated by Wang since she started studying at Shangdan Gaoxin School in Shangluo city’s Shangzhou district at the start of the year.
ref: 2019 July 15, Mandy Zuo, “Chinese teacher banned from classroom after teenage girl records abusive rants”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 15 Jul 2019, People & Culture:
text: Between January 3-6, Wang Minxia, the chairman and president of Shangzhou District CC&TSPM in Shangluo City, visited COVID-19 workers in the Chengguan Sub-district Office and Dongcheng Community, sending more than 5,000 yuan worth of supplies and equipment, such as electric heaters, water heaters, masks, disinfectants, and instant noodles.
ref: 2022 January 17, John Wong, “Churches in Shaanxi Support COVID-19 Prevention, Control”, in Abigail Wu, transl., China Christian Daily, archived from the original on 14 Apr 2022:
glosses: A district of Shangluo, Shaanxi, China.
Weinan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: wāʹnänʹ
Etymology: From Mandarin 渭南 (Wèinán).
Senses: examples: text: Shuang-wang is situated on the rich loess of the Wei River valley near the city of Weinan in Shensi Province.
ref: 1977, Andrew Watson, Living in China, Totowa, NJ: Littlefield, Adams & Co., →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 66:
text: When he assumed his duties as imperial agent, one of those who came to pay him a courtesy visit was Chao Chun-jui, the Moslem merchant from Weinan County in Shensi who had bought a large part of the jade sold by Kao P’u’s predecessor, Ma Hsing-a.
ref: 1977, Preston M. Torbert, The Chʻing Imperial Household Department: a Study of its Organization and Principal Functions, 1662-1796, Harvard University Press, →OCLC, page 146:
text: Weinan, in the western province of Shaanxi, has found a new way to encourage local districts to improve their performance on a series of development-related goals such as infrastructure projects and tax collection.
ref: 2014 October 24, Austin Ramzy, “In One Chinese City, Underperformers Also Share the Limelight”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 06 Jul 2023, Sinosphere:
text: A throat swab on a 52-year-old man in Weinan, a city in northern Shaanxi province, showed negative result after the person showed symptoms such as coughing and appetite loss, a city official said on Wednesday, but he tested positive using nose and anal swabs.
ref: 2021 January 27, Roxanne Liu, Ryan Woo, “Chinese cities using anal swabs to screen COVID-19 infections”, in William Maclean, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 27 Jan 2021, Healthcare & Pharma:
glosses: A prefecture-level city of Shaanxi, China.
Walgherton
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A small village and civil parish (served by Hatherton and Walgherton Parish Council) in Cheshire East district, Cheshire, England (OS grid ref SJ6948).
Tongguan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: to͝ongʹgwänʹ
Forms: form: T'ung-kuan
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 潼關 /潼关 (Tóngguān).
Senses: examples: text: In many localities it remained difficult to keep the ti-fang and pao-chia functionally apart. For instance, a ti-fang agent was instituted (1763) in each of the villages of T'ung-kuan Hsien (Shensi) to supervise the p'ai divisions and to assist the pao-chang in carrying out his police control duties.
ref: [1960, Kung-chuan Hsiao, “Police Control: The Pao-chia System”, in Rural China: Imperial Control in the Nineteenth Century, University of Washington Press, published 1967, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 63:
text: Travelling by day and resting by night, Kuo Tieh-shan came to the province of Shensi. Since Mr Yin was the magistrate of Tungkuan County, Kuo had to go out of his way to call on him.
ref: [1973, Wu Ching-tzu, “Kuo Tieh-shan encounters tigers in the mountain. A monk from Sweet Dew Temple meets his foe”, in Yang Hsien-yi, Gladys Yang, transl., The Scholars, Peking: Foreign Languages Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 419:
text: With the transfer after 907 of the capital to the eastern plains. T'ung-kuan lost its major defensive role; it remained an important strategic place, however, and was the site of a guard (wei) under the Ming dynasty (1368-1644). It became T'ung-kuan County under the Ch'ing dynasty (1644-1911).
ref: [1986, “T'ung-kuan”, in The New Encyclopedia Britannica, 15th edition, volume 12, →ISBN, →LCCN, page 40, column 1:
text: Tong Pass, the eastern gate of the land within the passes, was already established by the end of the Eastern Han dynasty, and its ruins now lie near Wucun Village in Tongguan County.
ref: 1991 [1987], Zou Zongxu, translated by Susan Whitfield, The Land Within the Passes: A History of Xian, Viking, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 38:
text: * Unit to acquire gold mine in Tongguan county of Shaanxi province for HK$406 million
ref: 2017 October 26, “BRIEF-China Mining Resources says unit to acquire gold mine for HK$406 mln”, in Reuters, archived from the original on 13 Jul 2023, CONSUMER PRODUCTS & RETAIL NEWS:
glosses: A county of Weinan, Shaanxi, China.
wikipedia: Cambridge University Press
Huayin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: hwäʹyǐnʹ
Forms: form: Hua-yin
Etymology: From Mandarin 華陰 /华阴 (Huàyīn).
Senses: examples: text: Mistress Yang was born in 718 in the little town of Huayin in the province of Shensi,² through which the modern Lunghai railway runs on its way from Ch'angan to the sea.
ref: 1956, Bernard Llewellyn, “The Queen of Concubines Yang Kuei-fei”, in China's Courts and Concubines, London: George Allen & Unwin, →OCLC, page 92:
text: I visited Hua Shan in the summer of 1935. It was an easy place to reach because the train to Sian stopped conveniently at a little place called Hua Yin, which means ‘under the shadow of Hua Shan’. The Hua Shan massif did indeed dominate Hua Yin.
ref: 1987, Hedda Morrison, Travels of a Photographer in China, 1933-1946, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 52, 244:
text: HUAYIN IS THE TOWN at the base of the holy mountain of Huashan.
ref: 1988, Michael Buckley, Cycling to Xian and other excursions, Crazyhorse Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 112:
text: The place where Huashan’s Taoist caretaker gave Yao this advice is known as Huafeng. It’s about three kilometers east of the present county seat of Huayin. Unfortunately, the last artifacts of the former sacrificial center were destroyed in 1958 during Mao’s Great Leap Forward, and the site is now better known for the neolithic remains discovered there since then. Two other shrines have also disappeared. One built at the beginning of the Chou dynasty south of Huayin has become Huashan High School.
ref: 1993, Bill Porter, Road to Heaven, San Francisco: Mercury House, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, pages 61–62:
text: But, the 4 billion yuan project was a failure and instead intensified flooding in Huayin, a county-level city under Weinan, where the Wei River - a tributary of the Yellow River - flowed backwards because its river bed was raised by more than 5 metres. In the 1960s, the central government scaled back the project.
ref: 2006 October 2, “Mao's ill-conceived dam still a curse for villagers”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 15 May 2021, Latest:
text: Police in Huayin in the northwestern province of Shaanxi made the “criminal detentions” earlier this month, suspecting the three of “inciting to subvert state power”, Ruan Xiuqin, wife of Chen Sizhong, one of the farmers, told Reuters by telephone.
ref: 2007 December 24, Shipeng Guo, Benjamin Kang Lim, “China detains farmers urging land privatization”, in Lindsay Beck, Roger Crabb, editors, Reuters, archived from the original on 11 Mar 2023, World News:
glosses: A county-level city of Weinan, Shaanxi, China.
Răsuceni
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Romanian Răsuceni.
Senses: glosses: A village and commune of Giurgiu County, Romania.
Huazhou
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Hua-chou
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 化州 (Huàzhōu).
Senses: examples: text: Authorities in the southern Chinese province of Guangdong have shelved plans to build a public crematorium near Huazhou city after clashes between protesters and riot police firing tear gas and wielding batons.
Last week's clashes in Huazhou's Wenlou township, some 100 kilometers (60 miles) from Hong Kong, saw around 1,000 armed riot police take over the town after residents made barricades on the streets to block the passage of armored vehicles, local residents told RFA at the time.
ref: 2019 December 2, Gao Feng, “Riot Police Win Back Control of Protest Town in China's Guangdong”, in Luisetta Mudie, transl., edited by Luisetta Mudie, Radio Free Asia, archived from the original on 03 Dec 2019, China:
glosses: A county-level city of Maoming, Guangdong, China.
Huazhou
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Hua-chou
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 華州 /华州 (Huàzhōu).
Senses: examples: text: Guanzhong Basin is a crucial food production area in China. Located in the east of the Guanzhong Basin, Huazhou District is not only an agricultural area, but also contains some factories, contributing significantly to the urban agglomeration in Guanzhong. Due to the rapid industrialization and urbanization development, Huazhou District has experienced environmental problems and water crisis (Wu and Sun, 2016). For example, the water coming from the river channel of Jijiahe Reservoir is mainly industrial wastewater, and over the years, the reservoir has been seriously silted up and the ecology of watershed has deteriorated. Xue et al. (2016) have demonstrated that the nitrate concentration of the Wei River in Huazhou District is higher than in upstream river sections.
ref: 2024 December 15, Lingxi Li, Peiyue Li, Yan Tian, Xiaomei Kou, Song He, “Nitrate sources and transformation in surface water and groundwater in Huazhou District, Shaanxi, China: Integrated research using hydrochemistry, isotopes and MixSIAR model”, in Environmental Research, volume 263, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 22 Apr 2025:
glosses: A district of Weinan, Shaanxi, China.
glosses: A subdistrict of Huazhou district, Weinan, Shaanxi, China, formerly a town.
Linwei
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Mandarin 臨渭 /临渭.
Senses: examples: text: Former reporter Xie Zhaoping , 55, has been detained at the Linwei district police station in Weinan , Shaanxi , for 'illegal business' after publishing Large Migration, a 100,000-word book, in May.
ref: 2010 September 2, Priscilla Jiao, “Book on dam's relocated victims lands author in jail”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 16 Mar 2024:
text: In one case reported on December 1, 1997, Judge Zhao Huanchi of Minsheng Road Court in the Linwei district, Shanxi^([sic – meaning Shaanxi]), issued a subpoena on November 4 to the manager of Weinan Food Service Company, requesting that the manager come to the court. On the next day, however, the company sent a letter to Zhao arguing that, according to a recent document of the Linwei district government, any court’s subpoena first had to have permission from the district leaders.
ref: 2013, Qiang Fang, “Chinese Media and the Rule of Law: The Case of the China Youth Daily, 1979-2006”, in Xiaobing Li, Qiang Fang, editors, Modern Chinese Legal Reform: New Perspectives, University Press of Kentucky, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 42:
text: In 2005 the Bureau of Culture of Linwei District of the City of Weinan, sensing the importance attached by the central government to ICH, submitted an application package and succeeded in listing Huaxian shadow puppetry as a national ICH project in 2006.
ref: 2022, Sha Yao, translated by Li Guicang, Cultural Expression and Subjectivity of Chinese Peasants, →ISBN, →OCLC, page https://books.google.com/books?id=DfQxEAAAQBAJ&pg=PT126:
text: The earliest known species of Tscherskia (T. sp.) was found in the Late Pliocene (2.58-3.60 Ma) from the Youhe Formation (ca. 3.40— 2.59 Ma) (Yue and Xue 1996; Xie et al. 2021) in Linwei District, Weinan, Shaanxi Province, China.
ref: 2024 May 29, Haijun Jiang, Xuming Wang, Yaohua Yang, Xuan Pan, Shaoying Liu, Jiqi Lu, “Tscherskia ningshaanensis: A neglected species based on phylogenetic and taxonomic analysis of Tscherskia and Cansumys (Cricetidae, Rodentia)”, in Melissa TR Hawkins, editor, Zoosystematics and Evolution, published 2024, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 1237, column 1:
glosses: A district of Weinan, Shaanxi, China.
Scorțaru Nou
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Romanian Scorțaru Nou.
Senses: glosses: A commune of Brăila County, Romania.
glosses: A village in Scorțaru Nou, Brăila County, Romania.
Săhăteni
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Romanian Săhăteni.
Senses: glosses: A commune and village in Buzău County, Romania.
Sălcuța
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Romanian Sălcuța.
Senses: glosses: Various villages in Romania.
glosses: A commune of Dolj County, Romania.
Săpata
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Romanian Săpata.
Senses: glosses: A commune of Argeș County, Romania.
glosses: A village in Măceșu de Jos, Dolj County, Romania.
Traian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Romanian Traian.
Senses: glosses: The name of a number of locations in Romania:
A commune of Bacău County, Romania.
glosses: The name of a number of locations in Romania:
A village in Traian, Bacău County, Romania.
glosses: The name of a number of locations in Romania:
A commune of Brăila County, Romania.
glosses: The name of a number of locations in Romania:
A village in Traian, Brăila County, Romania.
glosses: The name of a number of locations in Romania:
A village in Săcele, Constanța County, Romania.
glosses: The name of a number of locations in Romania:
A village in Braniștea, Galați County, Romania.
glosses: The name of a number of locations in Romania:
A commune of Ialomița County, Romania.
glosses: The name of a number of locations in Romania:
A village in Traian, Ialomița County, Romania.
glosses: The name of a number of locations in Romania:
A village in Bivolari, Iași County, Romania.
glosses: The name of a number of locations in Romania:
A village in Vânju Mare, Mehedinți County, Romania.
glosses: The name of a number of locations in Romania:
A village in Săbăoani, Neamț County, Romania.
glosses: The name of a number of locations in Romania:
A village in Zănești, Neamț County, Romania.
glosses: The name of a number of locations in Romania:
A commune of Olt County, Romania.
glosses: The name of a number of locations in Romania:
A village in Traian, Olt County, Romania.
glosses: The name of a number of locations in Romania:
A village in Doba, Satu Mare County, Romania.
glosses: The name of a number of locations in Romania:
A commune of Teleorman County, Romania.
glosses: The name of a number of locations in Romania:
A village in Traian, Teleorman County, Romania.
glosses: The name of a number of locations in Romania:
A village in Cerna, Tulcea County, Romania.
Related terms: Traian Vuia
Țintești
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Romanian Țintești.
Senses: glosses: A village and commune of Buzău County, Romania.
Țițești
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Romanian Țițești.
Senses: glosses: A village and commune of Argeș County, Romania.
Four Oaks
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A place in England:
A village in Beckley parish, Rother district, East Sussex (OS grid ref TQ8624).
glosses: A place in England:
A hamlet in Dymock parish and Oxenhall parish, Forest of Dean district, Gloucestershire (OS grid ref SO6928).
glosses: A place in England:
A hamlet in Luddenham parish, near Faversham, Swale borough, Kent (OS grid ref TQ9961).
glosses: A place in England:
A suburb of Sutton Coldfield, City of Birmingham, West Midlands (OS grid ref SP1198).
glosses: A place in England:
A settlement in Berkswell parish, Metropolitan Borough of Solihull, West Midlands (OS grid ref SP2480).
glosses: A town in Johnston County, North Carolina, United States.
Heyang
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: hǔʹyängʹ
Forms: form: Ho-yang
Etymology: From Mandarin 合陽 /合阳.
Senses: examples: text: The most direct road from Hanch'eng to Hsian lies through the cities of T'ungchou Fu and Weinan Hsien across the plains along the Yellow River, but we followed a slightly longer route further north across the loess uplands via Hoyang, Ch'engch'eng, P'uch'eng, Fup'ing, and Sanyuan, a week's journey by a good and mostly level trail.[…]
Hoyang is a fairly large city, the centre of a first class district; but it is a poor-looking place inside, like most of these purely agricultural prairie towns, and is not to be compared with Hanch'eng, which probably does a good deal of trade with prosperous Shansi.
ref: [1921, Eric Teichman, Travels of a Consular Officer in North-West China, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →OCLC, pages 79–80:
text: As a result, some 1,000 activists in reading Chairman Mao's works have emerged in Hoyang County, Shensi Province.
ref: [1966 January 26 [1966 January 19], “Local Areas Improve War Veterans' Treatment”, in Daily Report, Foreign Radio Broadcasts, number 18, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Peking NCNA Domestic Service, translation of original in Chinese, →OCLC, page CCC 4:
text: Heyang county was selected as the project site because of its representative qualities.[...]Weinan 渭南 municipality, in which Heyang county is situated, is the most densely populated of the province's lower-level and mainly agricultural municipalities.
ref: 2011, Gender in Flux: Agency and Its Limits in Contemporary China, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 59:
text: Shaanxi Broadcast & TV Network :
* Says it signs strategic cooperation agreement with Heyang County govt
ref: 2016 May 17 [2016 May 18], “BRIEF-Shaanxi Broadcast & TV Network signs strategic cooperation agreement with Heyang govt”, in Reuters, archived from the original on 11 Oct 2023:
glosses: A county of Weinan, Shaanxi, China.
Hancheng
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: hänʹchǔngʹ
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 邗城 (Hánchéng), from 邗溝 /邗沟 (Hángōu, “Han Canal”) + 城 (chéng, “wall, walled city”), from its placement to guard the southern end of the canal beside the Yangtze.
Senses: glosses: A former town in China, located within modern Yangzhou.
Synonyms: english: inexact
translation: inexact
word: Yangzhou
Related terms: Han
Hangou
Hanjiang