cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Hancheng
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: hänʹchǔngʹ
Etymology: From the Mandarin 韓城 /韩城 (Hánchéng), from the earlier march of 韓國 /韩国 (Hánguó) in the area, from 韓 /韩 (hán, “puteal”).
Senses: examples: text: To hasten the conclusion of the Communist-suppression campaign by checking the retreat of the Red remnants from Shansi back to Shensi, General Yang Hu-cheng, Pacification Commissioner for Shensi, has established a provisional headquarters at Hancheng on the Shensi-Shansi border about 70 kilometers south of Yichuen[.]
ref: 1936 May 2, “Two Shansi Cities are Cleared of Reds”, in The China Weekly Review, volume 76, number 9, →OCLC, page 298, column 1:
text: The "Red Flag" commune in Hancheng County set up a correspondence and newspaper-reading network in the brigades. Every correspondence group at all levels is under the charge of a responsible person of the revolutionary committee.
ref: 1969 November 25 [1969 November 19], “Writers From Lower Levels Trained in Shensi”, in Daily Report: Communist China, volume I, number 228, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Sian Shensi Provincial Service, translation of original in Mandarin, →OCLC, Communist China: Northwest Region, page H 3:
text: All the miners in the shaft died when an underground cable caught fire on Saturday night at the Xiaonangou coal mine in Hancheng City, the report said, citing the general office of the Shaanxi provincial government.
ref: 2010 July 18, Ken Wills, “China coal mine accident kills 28”, in Jonathan Thatcher, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 27 May 2022, World News:
text: The ministry also criticised Hancheng, in northern Shaanxi province, after 190 million yuan was spent on building hills and waterfalls.
ref: 2019 January 23, Alice Yan, “Act of folly: One of China’s poorest counties under fire after spending US$9 million on dynastic-style city gates”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 23 Jan 2019, People & Culture:
glosses: A county-level city of Weinan, Shaanxi, China.
Chengcheng
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /t͡ʃæŋ.t͡ʃæŋ/
enpr: chǔngʹchǔngʹ
Forms: form: Ch'eng-ch'eng
Etymology: From Mandarin 澄城 (Chéngchéng).
Senses: examples: text: Ch’eng was located south of the modern capital of Ch’eng-ch’eng County, eastern Shensi.
ref: [1980, Cho-yun Hsu, “Farming Resources”, in Jack L. Dull, editor, Han Agriculture: The Formation of Early Chinese Agrarian Economy (206 B.C.-A.D. 220), University of Washington Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 260:
text: Zhaojiahe is a single-surname village, which is not unusual in this area.⁸ It is under the administration of Leijiawa township, Chengcheng county, the Weinan district of Shaanxi province (see map 5).
ref: 2000, Xin Liu, In One's Own Shadow: an Ethnographic Account of the Condition of Post-reform Rural China, University of California Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 8:
glosses: A county of Weinan, Shaanxi, China.
Baishui
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: bīʹshwāʹ
Forms: form: Paishui
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 白水 (Báishuǐ).
Senses: examples: text: Mourners fell ill Sunday in Baishui, a rural county northwest of the provincial capital, Xi’an. Four remained in serious condition, the report said.
ref: 1998 November 6, “China Food Poisoning Strikes 260”, in AP News, archived from the original on 07 Apr 2023:
text: It was my good fortune around this time also to be selected as vice-governor for a year in Baishui county, recognized as a Chinese National Poverty County, located in Shaanxi province of China.
ref: 2015, Tang Lu, “Experience: Understanding and Reporting India”, in Robin Jeffrey, Ronojoy Sen, editors, Media at Work in China and India: Discovering and Dissecting, SAGE Publishing, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 101:
glosses: A county of Weinan, Shaanxi, China.
Pucheng
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: po͞oʹchǔngʹ
Etymology: From Mandarin 蒲城.
Senses: examples: text: Little is known about Yang Hu-ch’eng’s family background or early life except that he was born in Pucheng, Shensi, and that he became a bandit.
ref: 1971, “Yang Hu-ch'eng”, in Biographical Dictionary of Republican China, volume IV, Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 6:
text: A woman was jailed for 15 years in Weinan for helping her father blow up a bus in Pucheng county in January in a failed attempt to kill his wife,[…]reports.
ref: 2014 November 8, Huifeng He, “Mystery of boy tied to lamp post; Daughter helped dad in bid to kill mum with bomb”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 23 Nov 2014, China Insider:
text: A resident in Pucheng, in the northwestern province of Shaanxi, complained on the local government’s online messaging board in February that there was no bus service between downtown and the railway station.
ref: 2023 March 28, Li Yuan, “China’s Cities Are Buried in Debt, but They Keep Shoveling It On”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 28 Mar 2023, Business:
glosses: A county of Weinan, Shaanxi, China.
Fuping
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: fo͞oʹpǐngʹ
Forms: form: Fu-p'ing
Etymology: From Mandarin 阜平 (Fùpíng).
Senses: examples: text: Indeed, given China’s rampant corruption, another big question surrounding the antipoverty campaign, announced a few days after Mr. Xi’s visit, is how much of the additional $40 million that provincial authorities will funnel to Luotuowan and other villages in the surrounding county of Fuping next year will actually reach those in need.
ref: 2013 January 26, Andrew Jacobs, “Leader’s Visit Lifts a Village, Yet Lays Bare China’s Woes”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 28 Jan 2013, Asia Pacific, page 1:
glosses: A county of Baoding, Hebei, China.
Fuping
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: fo͞oʹpǐngʹ
Forms: form: Fu-p'ing
Etymology: From Mandarin 富平 (Fùpíng).
Senses: examples: text: Under an invitation from Kuan and Second Front Army Commander Ho Lung, the two young men visited troops at Chuangli, Fuping, on their way home.
ref: 1976, John Israel, Donald W. Klein, Rebels and Bureaucrats: China's December 9ers, University of California Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 135:
text: Zhang Shuxia, 55, an obstetrician in north-western Shaanxi province's Fuping county, was found guilty of selling the babies for as much as 21,600 yuan $3,600 (2,195 pounds) each between 2011 and 2013, the court in Weinan city said.
ref: 2014 January 14, Michael Martina, “China doctor gets suspended death sentence for trafficking newborn babies”, in Nick Macfie, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 31 May 2024, World:
glosses: A county of Weinan, Shaanxi, China.
ahistoricity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anhistoricity
Senses: glosses: Lack of historicity.
Three Oaks
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in Guestling parish, Rother district, East Sussex, England (OS grid ref TQ8314).
glosses: A census-designated place in Lee County, Florida, United States.
glosses: A village and township in Berrien County, Michigan, United States.
Guestling
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A civil parish in Rother district, East Sussex, England.
Xianyang
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: shyěnʹyängʹ
Forms: form: Hsien-yang
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 咸陽 (Xiányáng).
Senses: examples: text: The empire was divided into thirty-six ‘commanderies’. Each of these was controlled by a military and a civil governor, with an imperial inspector charged with overseeing them and reporting back to the Ch’in capital at Hsienyang.
ref: [1998, Chris Peers, “Shih Huang-Ti – The Tiger of Ch'in”, in Warlords of China: 700BC to AD1662, Arms and Armour Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 62:
text: Far less known, but almost as impressive, was Meng T’ien’s construction of a superhighway connecting the Chinese capital of Hsienyang (just across the Wei River from Ch’ang-an) with the newer sections of the Great Wall in Inner Mongolia.
ref: [2016, Bill Porter, “Onward [往前]”, in The Silk Road: Taking the Bus to Pakistan, Counterpoint, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 72:
english: 往前
translation: 往前
text: Weeks after her release, a court would seize her two-bedroom apartment in Xianyang in Shaanxi Province and her Toyota Camry because she was insolvent, and put her on a national blacklist. She can no longer book a hotel room or a plane ticket, or take out a loan.
ref: 2023 August 29, Li Yuan, “She Rose From Poverty as China Prospered. Then It Made Her Poor Again.”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 29 Aug 2023, China's Economy:
glosses: A prefecture-level city of Shaanxi, China.
Yangling
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: yängʹlǐngʹ
Etymology: From Mandarin 楊陵 /杨陵 (Yánglíng).
Senses: examples: text: This year the Yangling district, designated by the provincial government as a base for harvesting improved seed varieties, not only planted the Xiaoyan numbers 6, 107, and 168 and the Shaanxi number 213 seed varieties which are so well-liked by the people, but it also planted such new and improved seed varieties as the superior new composite Xinong number 85 and the Shaanxi 229, 897, and 84G6 varieties, among others.
ref: 1993 August 10 [1993 June 6], “Everyone Contributes To Ensure Abundant Results From the Summer Harvest”, in JPRS Report China, number 93-058, Joint Publications Research Service, sourced from Xian SHAANXI RIBAO p 1, translation of original in Chinese, →OCLC, page 41, column 1:
text: In Yangling, a district of 155,000 people that has been a center for agricultural sciences since the 1930s, several problems with the government’s attempt to sidestep privatization are apparent.
ref: 2014 October 12, Ian Johnson, “Once a Symbol of Power, Farming Now an Economic Drag in China”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 13 Oct 2014, Asia Pacific:
text: After completing my Chinese language training, I was sent at the age of 20 to the Northwest A&F University in the Yangling District of Xiangyang^([sic – meaning Xianyang]), a city of some seven million people in Shaanxi province.
ref: 2022, Nury Turkel, chapter 1, in No Escape: The True Story of China's Genocide of the Uyghurs, →ISBN, →OCLC, page https://www.google.com/books/edition/No_Escape/gJA9EAAAQBAJ?gbpv=1&pg=PT35:
glosses: A district of Xianyang, Shaanxi, China.
Wugong
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: wo͞oʹgo͝ongʹ
Forms: form: Wu-kung
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 武功 (Wǔgōng).
Senses: examples: text: The heart of the centre is in Yangling town in Wukung County, 80 kilometres from Sian, the provincial capital.
ref: [1978 August 2 [1978 August 1], “Shensi Selected as Site for Agricultural Research Center”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China, volume I, number 149, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Peking NCNA, →ISSN, →OCLC, page M 1:
text: According to a report last week by Huashang Daily, several schools in rural Shaanxi province are struggling to keep their pupils warm after their coal-fired heaters were dismantled during the anti-smog campaign.
A primary school in Wugong county had neither a gas supply nor an electricity connection powerful enough to run the heaters on its air conditioning units, it said.
ref: 2017 December 4, “Natural gas crunch in northern China leaves hospitals, schools out in the cold”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 04 Dec 2017, Policies & Politics:
glosses: A county of Xianyang, Shaanxi, China.
Xingping
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃɪŋˈpɪŋ/
enpr: shǐngʹpǐngʹ
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 興平 /兴平 (Xīngpíng).
Senses: examples: text: Very little is known about Ma Chun's early life. He was born in a poor family in what is today Hsingping county in Shansi^([sic – meaning Shensi]) province.
ref: [1973, John Gittings, “How the Dragon's Backbone was Invented”, in A Chinese View of China, 1st American edition, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 32:
text: A recent discovery is a bronze vessel with an inlaid gold ornament, excavated at Tou-ma-ts’un, Hsing-p’ing County, Shensi Province. It dates from the Late Eastern Chou period.
ref: [1973, Jan Fontein, Tung Wu, “Chou Bronzes”, in Unearthing China's Past, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 54, column 3:
text: On Saturday, rain and hail struck the Shaanxi counties of Suide and Xingping, killing two people and damaging about 7,000 hectares of farmland. Economic losses were calculated at more than 16.5 million yuan.
ref: 2004 July 18, “Flooding swamps many provinces, and more to come”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 14 Jun 2023:
text: Maoling is located in Xingping City, Shaanxi Province, and is the tomb of the Han Emperor Wudi (also known as Liu Che).
ref: 2011, Li Xianyao, Luo Zhewen, China's Museums, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 120:
glosses: A county-level city of Xianyang, Shaanxi, China.
Qindu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 秦都.
Senses: examples: text: A case in point is the village of Tiezu, or Iron Mouth in English, located in Qindu county on the outskirts of Xianyang, a former ancient capital of China in central Shaanxi province.
Starting this year, newlyweds in Qindu district have been required to sign contracts pledging to support their parents after age 60.
ref: 1990 October 23, Lena H. Sun, “CHINA SEEKS WAYS TO PROTECT ELDERLY”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 20 Aug 2023:
text: To help protect the rights of the elderly, particularly in rural areas, some localities have begun requiring contracts of support between elderly parents and their children. A case in point is the village of Tiezu, or Iron Mouth in English, located in Qindu county on the outskirts of Xianyang, a former ancient capital of China in central Shaanxi province.
Starting this year, newlyweds in Qindu district have been required to sign contracts pledging to support their parents after age 60.
ref: 1996, Lena H. Sun, “China Seeks Ways to Protect Elderly; Support Agreements Replacing Traditional Respect for the Aged”, in Ourselves and Others: The Washington Post Sociology Companion, 2nd edition, Needham Heights, MA: Allyn and Bacon, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 131:
text: Before being appointed Shangzhou party chief in 2000, Zhang served as the city's mayor between 1999 and 2000, and Qindu district party head between 1997 and 1999.
ref: 2006 July 23, “Shaanxi official's corruption case is the tip of iceberg”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 08 Feb 2024:
text: Rongan Property Co Ltd
* Says co’s wholly owned management consulting unit and a Shaanxi-based real estate development firm will jointly develop land in Qindu District, Xianyang City
ref: 2017 October 16, “BRIEF-Rongan Property unit and real estate development firm to jointly develop land in Xianyang”, in Reuters, archived from the original on 04 Sep 2022, Financials:
text: The study area of this paper covers the main urban area of Xi’an, which is mainly the area within the Xi’an Ring Expressway, including seven districts within Xi’an (Xincheng District, Beilin District, Lianhu District, Weiyang District, Yanta District, Baqiao District and Chang’an District) as well as a small part of Qindu District in Xianyang City, with a total area of about 457km².
ref: 2023 August 24, Jiang Wu, Shenshan Han, Leijie Shi, Qun Hui, “Study on the spatial variability of thermal landscape in Xi’an based on OSM road network and POI data”, in Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, volume 11, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 27 Nov 2024:
glosses: A district of Xianyang, Shaanxi, China.
Weicheng
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: wāʹchǔngʹ
Etymology: From Mandarin 渭城 (Wèichéng).
Senses: glosses: A district of Xianyang, Shaanxi, China.
Weicheng
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: wāʹchǔngʹ
Etymology: From Mandarin 濰城 /潍城 (Wéichéng).
Senses: examples: text: The museum is located on the eastern bank of the Bailang River in the Weicheng District of Weifang City and can be reached from Zibo, Qingdao or Yantai.
ref: 1991 March, “Newly Opened Places of Interest in Shandong Province”, in Chapman Lee, transl., China Tourism, number 129, H.K. China Tourism Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 88, column 2:
text: I am 22 years of age. I live in Weicheng District of Weifang City.
ref: 2004, Ian Johnson, Wild Grass: Three Stories of Change in Modern China, New York: Pantheon Books, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 216:
text: Sentences ranging from suspended prison terms to jail terms of up to six years were handed down by courts in Jiangsu's Xuzhou city and Shandong's Weifang city on Friday.
The sentences were handed down by the Weicheng District People's Court in Weifang and the Tongshan District People's Court in Xuzhou, for public order offenses including "disrupting public order," "obstructing officials in the course of their duty," and "gathering a crowd to disturb public order," state news agency Xinhua reported.
ref: 2019 April 19, Siu-san Wong, Lee Wang-yam, Shi Shan, “Chinese Courts Hand Down Jail Terms to PLA Veterans After Protests”, in Luisetta Mudie, transl., edited by Luisetta Mudie, Radio Free Asia, archived from the original on 19 Apr 2019:
glosses: A district of Weifang, Shandong, China.
Jingyang
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /d͡ʒɪŋˈjæŋ/
rhymes: -æŋ
Forms: form: Ching-yang
form: Kingyang
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 涇陽 /泾阳 (Jīngyáng).
Senses: examples: text: Too busy to concern themselves with war propagandists’ nightmares,. but resolved to defend their newly-won right to the pursuit of happiness, these women of a mutual-aid team in Chingyang County, Shensi Province, chat about what they plan te do with their good cotton harvest this year.
ref: [1951 November 21, “Atrocity report backfires, leaves U.S. allies jittery”, in National Guardian, volume 4, number 5, New York, N.Y., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 1:
text: Located in Jinghe New City, Jingyang County, Xianyang, Shaanxi, the church has a sanctuary with a seating capacity of over 1,000 and the space between the sanctuary and the offices can accommodate an additional 300.
ref: 2018 January 24, Xianyang CCC&TSPM of Shaanxi, “New Ark-shaped Church Completed in Shaanxi”, in Karen Luo, transl., China Christian Daily, archived from the original on 15 Feb 2018:
glosses: A county of Xianyang, Shaanxi, China.
Sanyuan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: sänʹyüǎnʹ
Etymology: From Mandarin 三原 (Sānyuán).
Senses: examples: text: Three men prominent in these groups were arrested, including Sian NLVC leader Yü Chih-yuan. In addition, a warrant was circulated for Li Lien-pi, director of the NLVC Northwest Bureau, who happened to be out of town; he was picked up in Sanyuan County in July. With the apprehension of still another young man, the incarcerated leaders became known as the “Five Youths of Sian,” and a movement was undertaken to secure their release.
ref: 1976, John Israel, Donald W. Klein, “The War They Wanted”, in Rebels and Bureaucrats: China's December 9ers, University of California Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 170:
text: This Ming dynasty temple in Sanyuan County, Shaanxi, was constructed in 1375 and is now one of the country’s best- preserved examples of Ming architecture— it has kept its original design ever since it was first built.
ref: 2004, “The Central Region (North)”, in Treasures of China, Reader's Digest, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 104:
text: A man walks through the dried-up bed of a reservoir in Sanyuan county, Shaanxi province July 30, 2014.
ref: 2015 January 22, Alister Doyle, Valerie Volcovici, “U.N. asks countries for climate plans after record warm 2014”, in Janet Lawrence, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 13 Aug 2023, World News:
text: Han Yingjin, bishop of Sanyuan in the northern province of Shaanxi, said the deal could improve morale among Chinese Catholics, and is "of great significance."
ref: 2018 September 24, Lau Siu-fung, Gao Feng, “China's Christians Have 'Mixed Feelings' About Vatican Agreement on Bishops”, in Luisetta Mudie, transl., edited by Luisetta Mudie, Radio Free Asia, archived from the original on 24 Sep 2018:
glosses: A county of Xianyang, Shaanxi, China.
Chunhua
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /t͡ʃuːnˈhwɑː/
enpr: cho͝onʹhwäʹ
Etymology: From Mandarin 淳化 (Chúnhuà).
Senses: examples: text: THE road in Chunhua county, Shensi province was lined with poplar trees. Waiting at a bus stop beneath one of them was a woman commune member with a child of four or five. The child kept running among the young trees, occasionally shaking them. "Don't do that," the mother scolded. "Everybody takes care of the trees and you should too."
In fact, most of the roads in Chunhua county are now lined with trees and most of the people do feel about them like this farm mother.
ref: 1978 June, Staff Reporter, “Turning the Yellow Hills Green”, in China Reconstructs, volume XXVII, number 6, Peking, →OCLC, page 30:
text: The Kan-ch’üan (Sweet Spring) Palace was built on Kan-ch’üan Mountain, about fifteen miles northwest of modern Ch’un-hua 淳化 County in Shensi (T’an Ch’i-hsiang, 2:15).
ref: [1994 [145–86 BCE], Ssu-ma Ch’ien, translated by Cao Weiguo, “The Filial and Cultured [Emperor], Basic Annals 10”, in William Nienhauser, editor, The Grand Scribe's Records, volume II, Indiana University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 167:
text: Moreover, as a means of communication [he built] the Direct Road, from Chiu-yüan⁴¹ to Yün-yang.⁴²
ref: [2002, Nicola Di Cosmo, “Those Who Draw the Bow: The Rise of the Hsiung-nu Nomadic Empire and the Political Unification of the Nomads”, in Ancient China and Its Enemies: The Rise of Nomadic Power in East Asian History, Cambridge University Press, sourced from Shih chi 110, 2886, translation of original in Chinese, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 174:
text: A tour bus traveling through countryside in northwest China toppled off a steep hillside in Shaanxi Province on Friday, killing at least 35 people, according to state-run news media. It appeared to be the deadliest traffic accident in nine months in China, where the government has struggled to curtail the danger on roads and highways.
The bus, traveling through Chunhua County, had about 46 people on board when it went off the side of the road, according to news reports citing county officials.
ref: 2015 May 15, Chris Buckley, “Bus Goes Over Hillside in China, Killing at Least 35”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 16 Jun 2022, Asia Pacific:
glosses: A county of Xianyang, Shaanxi, China.
Liquan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˌliːˈt͡ʃwɛn/
Forms: form: Li-ch'üan
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 禮泉 /礼泉.
Senses: examples: text: In the first half of this year Lichuan County built five small factories, including a cement works.
ref: [1970 July 23 [1970 July 10], “Shensi Coal Output”, in Daily Report: Communist China, volume I, number 142, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Sian Shensi Provincial, translation of original in Mandarin, →OCLC, Communist China: Northwest Region, page H 4:
text: The account centers around Wang Pao-ching, a technical activist in Lichuan county, Shensi province. As early as 1952, Wang proposed that greatly increased maize yields could be realized with the introduction of scientific farming.
ref: [1974, Richard P. Suttmeier, “Technological Mobilization: Science, Technology, and the Chinese Masses”, in Research and Revolution: Science Policy and Societal Change in China, Lexington Books, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 132:
text: Interested parties can also go to the Fenghuo People's Commune of Liquan County although it is over 40 miles (60 km) from Xi'an in the direction of the Qian Ling.
ref: 1984, Simon Holledge, Xi'an, South China Printing, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 87:
glosses: A county of Xianyang, Shaanxi, China.
Yongshou
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: yo͝ongʹshōʹ
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 永壽 /永寿 (Yǒngshòu).
Senses: examples: text: 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.
ref: [1914, Alexander Hosie, On the Trail of the Opium Poppy, volume I, Boston: Small, Maynard & Company, →OCLC, page 165:
text: 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.
ref: 1999, Tony Lambert, “A survey of church growth, province by province”, in China's Christian Millions, Monarch Books, published 2006, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 265:
text: 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.)
ref: 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:
english: 中国的和平发展系列
translation: 中国的和平发展系列
text: 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.
ref: 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:
glosses: A county of Xianyang, Shaanxi, China.
Binzhou
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: bǐnʹjōʹ
Forms: form: Pin-chou
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 彬州.
Senses: glosses: A county-level city of Xianyang, Shaanxi, China.
Binzhou
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: bǐnʹjōʹ
Forms: form: Pin-chou
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 濱州 /滨州 (Bīnzhōu).
Senses: examples: text: Li Jundang, manager of Shandong Binzhou Tianjian Biotechnology, a wheat gluten producer in the city of Binzhou, about 200 miles north of here, said, “We never heard the news of tainted pet food.”
ref: 2007 April 12, David Barboza, “Some Suspect Chemical Mix in Pet Food”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 05 Jun 2015, World Business:
text: The city of Binzhou in eastern China's Shandong province, home to top aluminum producer China Hongqiao Group, is planning five new projects to support development of a high-end aluminum industry, according to a local government document.
ref: 2018 September 4, Tom Daly, “China's aluminum capital Binzhou plans new 'high-end' projects”, in Tom Hogue, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 22 Nov 2023, Currencies:
glosses: A prefecture-level city of Shandong, China.
Changwu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /(ˈ)t͡ʃæŋˈwu/
other: /(ˈ)t͡ʃɑŋˈu/
enpr: chängʹwo͞oʹ
Etymology: From Mandarin 長武 /长武.
Senses: examples: text: In the city of Changwu on the Shensi-Kansu border he executed three commanders from the Third Nationalist Army whose brutality had provoked the Red Spear uprising.
ref: 1971, Vera Vladimirovna Vishnyakova-Akimova, translated by Steven I. Levine, Two Years in Revolutionary China, 1925-1927, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 137:
text: The threat of a war—it was feared a nuclear war—between Russia and China was brewing in the later months of 1968. (Actual hostilities broke out in 1969 and the whole school was evacuated.) Because of the general threat of possible nuclear attack, those of us who were left at the school were sent to Changwu County (a six-hour drive) to help dig fallout shelters.
ref: 1997, Melvyn Goldstein, The Struggle for Modern Tibet: The Autobiography of Tashi Tsering, M.E. Sharpe, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 122:
text: Recent excavations in Dingjia village, Changwu County, Shaanxi Province, uncovered a cache of twenty-four small sandstone Buddhist steles in a variety of shapes and sizes.
ref: 2007, Annette L. Juliano, “Catalogue”, in Buddhist Sculpture from China: Selections from the Xi’an Beilin Museum: Fifth through Ninth Centuries, New York: China Institute, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 43, column 1:
glosses: A county of Xianyang, Shaanxi, China.
Xunyi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: shünʹyēʹ
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 旬邑.
Senses: examples: text: At the end of 1927 the Communists were "purged" from the Kuomintang, and although in 1928 a short-lived soviet government had been proclaimed at Hsunyi, it was crushed by General Feng Yu-hsiang's pro-Nanking troops.
ref: [1971, Dick Wilson, “Home and Dry in Shensi”, in The Long March 1935: The Epic of Chinese Communism's Survival, New York: Viking Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 227:
text: Then in August 1978, the People’s Daily reported a directive transmitted by Hua Kuo-feng, then chairman of CPC, concerning the despotic practices of the cadres in Hsunyi county of Shensi province.
ref: [1987, Alan P. L. Liu, “Popular Politicians and Totalitarian Cadres”, in Phoenix and the Lame Lion: Modernization in Taiwan and Mainland China, 1950-1980, number 358, Stanford, Cali.: Hoover Institution Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 114:
text: Xia Zhanyi, Communist Party chief of Xunyi county - where the factory is located, called on all citizens to support the project and help it reach the sales goal, more than 10 times the planned 45,000 target for this year, the Beijing Daily said.
ref: 2003 February 5, Mark O'Neill, “Beijing urges public support for car project”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 04 Jun 2023:
text: Nowadays, there are still some people surnamed Diwu in China, and most of them lived in a village in Xunyi County, Shaanxi Province.
ref: 2010, Bi Yanli [毕艳莉], translated by Qin Dan [秦丹], Tales from the Hundreds Surnames (Tales from China's Classic Essential Readings), Beijing: China Intercontinental Press (五洲传播出版社), →ISBN, →OCLC, page 184:
english: 秦丹
translation: 秦丹
glosses: A county of Xianyang, Shaanxi, China.
Tongchuan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: to͝ongʹchwänʹ
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 銅川 /铜川 (Tóngchuān).
Senses: examples: text: Shensi has abundant coal deposits distributed throughout the province, one of the largest being at T’ung-ch’uan.
ref: [1973, Chiao-min Hsieh, “North China”, in Christopher L. Salter, editor, Atlas of China, McGraw-Hill, Inc., →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 125, column 2:
text: The blast, one of the worst in China in decades, hit the Chenjiashan coal mine in Tongchuan in the northwestern province of Shaanxi just days after the pit had caught fire.
ref: 2006 October 29, “Briefly: 2 managers are jailed in blast that killed 166 - Asia - Pacific - International Herald Tribune”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 29 Dec 2022, Asia Pacific:
text: Tongchuan, a city of 700,000 in the northwestern province of Shaanxi, called on Wednesday for all medical workers who retired in the past five years to join the battle against COVID.
ref: 2022 December 22, Zoey Zhang, Bernard Orr, Martin Pollard, Ella Cao, Casey Hall, Marius Zaharia, Ben Blanchard, “Shanghai hospital warns of 'tragic battle' as COVID spreads”, in Lincoln Feast, Jacqueline Wong, Toby Chopra, editors, Reuters, archived from the original on 23 Dec 2022, China:
glosses: A prefecture-level city of Shaanxi, China.
Yaozhou
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: youʹjōʹ
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 耀州.
Senses: examples: text: The three species of Tasmanognathus (T. borealis, T. gracilis and T. shichuanheensis) erected by An in An et al. (1985) from the Yaoxian Formation (DarriwilianSandbian) of Yaozhou District (formerly Yaoxian) of Tongchuan City, Shaanxi Province in North China exhibit similar species apparatus and closely related morphological variations of constituent elements.
ref: 2010 July, Zhen Y.Y. et al., “A Late Ordovician Conodont Fauna from the Lower Limestone Member of the Benjamin Limestone in Central Tasmania, and Revision of Tasmanognathus careyi Burrett, 1979”, in Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales, volume 131, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 59:
text: Mt. Yaowang, is situated in Yaozhou District, Tongchuan City, 70 kilometers (43 miles) north of Xi’an. To get there travelers can take a coach from Xi’an North Long-distance Bus Station to Yaozhou District in Tongchuan City.
ref: 2017 December 29, “A Two-day Tour to Appreciate Yaozhou Kiln”, in Government Website of Shaanxi Province, archived from the original on 24 Feb 2021:
glosses: A district of Tongchuan, Shaanxi, China.
wikipedia: Cambridge University Press
Wangyi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: wängʹēʹ
Etymology: From Mandarin 王益.
Senses: glosses: A district of Tongchuan, Shaanxi, China.
Yintai
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: yǐnʹtīʹ
Etymology: From Mandarin 印台.
Senses: examples: text: The old city of Tongchuan are Wangyi district and Yintai District.[…]
In September 29, 1984, a slope over 65,000 m3 collapsed in Yintai District, destroyed 23 houses and 50 people died.
ref: 2018 August, Aning Zhao, Jianhui Wang, Huaqing Chen, Jianghua Zhang, “Environmental Problems and Countermeasures for Sustainable Development in a Declining Mining City Tongchuan”, in Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Education, Management, Information and Management Society (EMIM 2018), →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 306:
text: Figure 5 e shows the salt weathering of a natural slope in Yintai District, Tongchuan City, where can be classified as valleys and ridges considering its topographic feature.
ref: 2019, Jian Xu et al., “Shear strength and mesoscopic character of undisturbed loess with sodium sulfate after dry-wet cycling”, in Bulletin of Engineering Geology and the Environment, volume 79, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 1528:
text: Forty-two miners were working underground when the accident occurred around 1 p.m. in Yintai District of Tongchuan City, according to the emergency rescue team on the site. Of the miners, 34 were lifted out of the mine safely.
ref: 2020 November 4, “8 missing in NW China mine accident”, in huaxia, editor, Xinhua News Agency, archived from the original on 05 Nov 2020:
glosses: A district of Tongchuan, Shaanxi, China.
Yijun
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ēʹjünʹ
Forms: form: Yichun
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 宜君 (Yíjūn).
Senses: examples: text: Three early Republican incidents, all originating in Shaanxi province, exemplify much more aggressive moves. In the course of the first one (1913),[...]Sixteen months later in Yijun county, opium commissar Wang Jiechen and more than ten policemen escorting him were killed by one hundred bandits, who had been commissioned by local opium-growers to protect forbidden poppy plants in exchange for a share in the profits from opium sales. The bandits went on to occupy the county capital.
ref: 2001, Lucien Bianco, “The Responses of Opium Growers to Eradication Campaigns and the Poppy Tax, 1907-1949”, in Peasants Without the Party: Grass-roots Movements in Twentieth-Century China, M.E. Sharpe, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 110:
text: In Yijun County in Shaanxi Province, the police said they had collected more than 11,700 samples, or one quarter.
ref: 2020 June 17, Sui-Lee Wee, Amber Wang, Liu Yi, “China Is Collecting DNA From Tens of Millions of Men and Boys, Using U.S. Gear”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 17 Jun 2020:
glosses: A county of Tongchuan, Shaanxi, China.
Huangling
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: hwängʹlǐngʹ
Forms: form: Huang-ling
Etymology: From Mandarin 黃陵 /黄陵.
Senses: examples: text: HUANG DI, the legendary Yellow Emperor to whom is attributed the founding of the Chinese nation about 2000 B.C., is said to have been buried on the loess plateau. There is a tomb in Shaanxi province’s Huangling county which has long been honored as his.
ref: 1979 August, Lan Cao, “Tomb of the Yellow Emperor”, in China Reconstructs, volume XXVIII, number 8, China Welfare Institute, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 64, column 1:
text: On April 4, 1938, Chang Kuo-tao, another leader of the Chinese Communists, went from Yenan, Shensi, to Chungpu (renamed Huangling, 1944) in his capacity of acting chairman of the Shensi-Kansu-Ninghsia Border Government to attend the sacrificial services to the tomb of the Yellow Emperor.
ref: 1981, A Pictorial History of the Republic of China: Its Founding and Development, volume II, Modern China Press, →OCLC, page 72:
text: The Cave Temple of a Thousand Buddhas (Tang) is halfway up Ziwu Hill in the western part of Huangling county.
ref: 1982, Ruth Lor Malloy, The Morrow Travel Guide to the People's Republic of China, 2nd Revised edition, Quill, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 243:
text: In nine school children (6—10 years) from Huang-Ling county, a selenium-deficient area 200 km north of Xi’an, 5 ml of EDTA blood were taken in the fasting state.
ref: [1987, M.D. Laryea, Y.F. Jiang, G.L. Xu, D. Frosch, I. Lombeck, “Low Selenium State and Increased Erucic Acid in Children from Keshan Endemic Areas – A Pilot Study”, in Albrecht Wendel, editor, Selenium in Biology and Medicine: Proceedings of the Fourth International Symposium on Selenium in Biology and Medicine, held July 18-21, 1988, Tübingen, FRG, Van Nostrand Reinhold, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 277:
text: The mausoleum, located in Huangling County, Shaanxi Province, is the location of the tomb of the Yellow Emperor, the common ancestor of the Chinese nation.
ref: 2022 April 6, Shaanxi Provincial People’s Government, “Renyin (2022) Qingming Festival Memorial Ceremony for the Yellow Emperor was held in Shaanxi”, in AP News, PR Newswire, archived from the original on 11 Mar 2023:
glosses: A county of Yan'an, Shaanxi, China.
XOFFs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of XOFF
Luochuan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Lo-ch'uan
Etymology: From Mandarin 洛川 (Luòchuān).
Senses: examples: text: On the basis of the loess section in Luochuan, Shaanxi Province, thirteen climatic cycles (L1-L13) and twenty-one subcycles can be distinguished, and the climatic variations indicated agree to the fact that the oscillation magnitude after the Brunhes/the Matuyama 700,000 yrs ago in the Early Pleistocene, was the greatest.
ref: 1985, Ze-chun Liu, “Climatostratigraphy of the Sediments in the Peking Man's Cave”, in Quaternary Geology and Environment of China, China Ocean Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 41:
text: Local police in Luochuan County in Shaanxi, central China told NBC News on Thursday they were investigating the incident, which took place on Monday.
ref: 2015 May 7, Cassandra Vinograd, Marc Smith, Rebekah Smyth, Robert Windrem, “Video of Brutal Attack on Toddler in China Sparks Outrage”, in NBC News, archived from the original on 09 May 2015:
glosses: A county of Yan'an, Shaanxi, China.
XONs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of XON
Huanglong
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhwɑŋ lɔŋ/
ipa: /-lɒŋ/
enpr: hwängʹlo͝ongʹ
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 黃龍／黄龙 (Huánglóng).
Senses: examples: text: The members of the medical team in the Shancha people's commune of Huanglung County try Chinese medicinal herbs and acupuncture to treat Kaschin-Beck disease and Keshan disease.
ref: [1971 June 3 [1971 June 2], “Medical Team from Peking Hospitals Serves Yenan People”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China, number 71-107, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Peking NCNA International Service, →ISSN, →OCLC, page H 4:
text: However, there were quite a large number of villages, especially in poor areas, where eight or nine peasants had to support one local-level cadre. This was true in impoverished Huanglong County in Shaanxi. While Huanglong is a small county with only 40,000-odd people, it has more than 4,400 cadres and civil servants working in 308 departments. In the early years after "liberation" in 1949, however, the comparative ratio was only twenty-eight farmers to one official.
ref: 2006, Willy Wo-Lap (林和立) Lam, Chinese Politics in the Hu Jintao Era: New Leaders, New Challenges, Routledge, →ISBN, →OCLC, page https://books.google.com/books?id=GXeTDAAAQBAJ&pg=PT103:
glosses: A county of Yan'an, Shaanxi, China.
Yichuan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: yēʹchwänʹ
Etymology: From Mandarin 宜川 (Yíchuān).
Senses: examples: text: Hukou Waterfalls is the second largest waterfall in China, behind Huangguoshu in Guizhou Province. It lies in Hukou Township, Yichuan County, Shaanxi Province, with Jixian County in Shanxi Province on the opposite bank.
ref: 2000 March, Zhou Ping, “Blue Skies and Yellow Loess — Spring Festival in Northern Shaanxi”, in China Tourism, number 236, H.K. China Tourism Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 31, column 1:
text: Military expenses were frequently at the root of such deficits. One early investigation of arrears in Shaanxi’s Yichuan county is typical. An audit of the Yichuan granary revealed a shortage of nearly 3,000 piculs (dan) of grain.
ref: 2007, Patricia M. Thornton, Disciplining the State: Virtue, Violence, and State-Making in Modern China, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 37:
text: The 34.2 kilometre (21.3 mile) pipeline, which will be built by Qinjin Natural Gas Co, is designed to have annual gas transmission capacity of 3.3 billion cubic metres and connect Ji county in Shanxi and Yichuan county in Shaanxi.
ref: 2021 July 5, Muyu Xu, Shivani Singh, “China approves a $55 mln gas pipeline in northern China”, in Louise Heavens, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 05 Jul 2021, Energy:
glosses: A county of Yan'an, Shaanxi, China.
Yichuan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: yēʹchwänʹ
Etymology: From Mandarin 伊川 (Yīchuān).
Senses: examples: text: The Yichuan County revolutionary committee was set up on 27 January. Some 27,000 people in Yichuan County held a celebration rally. (Wang I), commissar of Loyang military subdistrict, on behalf of the Loyang Special District revolutionary committee and the Loyang military subdistrict, attended and fervently congratulated the rally.
ref: 1968 February 8 [1968 February 6], “Yichuan Committee”, in Daily Report: Communist China, number 28, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Chengchow Honan Provincial, translation of original in Mandarin, →OCLC, Chicom Regional Affairs, page ddd 24:
text: A rural lender based in China’s central Henan province sought to assure depositors of its financial health after a high volume of over-the-counter requests at some of its branches on Tuesday, amid concerns of liquidity issues at smaller Chinese lenders.
As a result, operation at those branches was slower than usual, Yichuan Rural Commercial Bank, which has 33 branches operating only in Henan’s Yichuan county, said in a notice posted on its official WeChat account.
ref: 2019 October 29, Cheng Leng, Ryan Woo, “Rural Chinese bank seeks to assure depositors”, in Ed Osmond, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 21 May 2023, Banking and Financial News:
glosses: A county of Luoyang, Henan, China.
Yanchang
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: yěnʹchängʹ
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 延長 /延长 (Yáncháng).
Senses: examples: text: Subsequently our army completed the Long March from south Shensi to north Shensi and reached Yungping in Yenchang County on 18 September 1935 to join forces with the 26th and 27th Red armies.
ref: [1978 September 29 [1978 August 1], Cheng Tzu-hua [4453 1311 5478] [程子華], “Take Up Arms in a Struggle for the Party”, in Translations from Red Flag, number 8, United States Joint Publications Research Service, sourced from Peking Red Flag pp 51-60, translation of original in Chinese, page 88:
english: 程子華
translation: 程子華
text: A natural gas well operated by Shaanxi Yanchang Petroleum Group has been burning for nearly a week since drilling in the well caused gas to leak out and explode,[…]
The accident took place late in the night on July 23 as workers drilled a gas well 2,750 meters under the ground in Yanchang County, said the official.
ref: 2010 July 29, Chen Aizhu, “North China gas well fire burning for nearly week: Xinhua”, in Ken Wills, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 15 May 2021, World News:
text: We selected Yanchang County as an example to track land use changes and their effects on the livelihood of the local population following the implementation of a new land use policy known as the Grain for Green Project (GGP). The data were collected from statistical yearbooks, questionnaire surveys, and satellite imagery from 1990, 2000, and 2008. We found that dramatic land use changes have occurred in Yanchang County.
ref: 2014 September, Nahui Zhen, Bojie Fu, Yihe Lü, Zhenmin Zheng, “Changes of livelihood due to land use shifts: A case study of Yanchang County in the Loess Plateau of China”, in Land Use Policy, volume 40, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC:
glosses: A county of Yan'an, Shaanxi, China.
Baota
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: bouʹtäʹ
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 寶塔 /宝塔 (Bǎotǎ).
Senses: examples: text: The police have reported this case to Yan’an Baota District Procuratorate which will decide whether or not to issue an arrest order for Zhang within seven days.
ref: 2002 November 1, Sanmeng Wu, Ivy Zheng, “Is Pornography Legal?”, in Beijing Today, number 77, →OCLC, page 8, column 5:
text: In a humiliating reversal for local police, Baota District People’s Procuratorate in Yan’an city, Shaanxi has thrown out their case against a local man accused of watching pornographic VCDs and obstructing justice.
ref: 2002 November 8, Ivy Zheng, “Is Pornography Legal?”, in Beijing Today, number 78, →OCLC, page 8, column 4:
text: From January 1, 1997, Yan’an Prefecture officially became the prefecture-equivalent Yan’an Municipality (Yan’anshi), whose jurisdiction includes all the original counties under the prefecture. At the same time the urban area of Yan’an City was renamed Baota District. I will use Yan’an Prefecture, Yan’an County, and Yan’an City (or simply Yan’an) respectively to refer to the three different administrative levels.
ref: 2006, Adam Yuet Chau, “Notes”, in Miraculous Response: Doing Popular Religion in Contemporary China, Stanford, Cali.: Stanford University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 252:
text: Hou Xiuzhen, an elderly woman, lives in Nanniwan, a village in the town of Nanniwan, in Baota District of Yan'an, in Northwest China's Shaanxi Province.
ref: 2021 May 31, Yao Yao, “Family Promotes Spirit of Great Production Campaign in Nanniwan”, in All-China Women's Federation, archived from the original on 24 Jun 2022:
glosses: A district of Yan'an, Shaanxi, China.