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Lijiang
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Lìjiāng
English
Alternative forms
en Li-chiang Wade-Giles
en Likiang dated
Etymology
From the en cmn-pinyin - romanization of the en cmn 麗江.
Pronunciation
lē′jyäng′Likiang or Li-chiang 1053 3
en Li jiang
Proper noun
en prefecture-level city northwestern p/Yunnan c/China.
en [Francis] Kingdon Ward Mr. Kingdon Ward’s Seventh Expedition in Asia. No. III. To Lichiang. The Gardeners’ Chronicle: A Weekly Illustrated Journal of Horticulture and Allied Subjects London 5 Tavistock Street, Covent Garden, W.C.2 2 December 1922 LXXI (Third Series) 1875 325 https://archive.org/stream/gardenerschronic37172lond#page/325/mode/1up 1 47928976 The main road to Lichiang-fu, by Ho-ch'ing, is not followed by the muleteers, except by request, as there is a high mountain to cross. on
en June 15, 2017 Sarah Kaplan Quantum entanglement, science’s ‘spookiest’ phenomenon, achieved in space w:The Washington Post https://web.archive.org/web/20170617103337/https://www.washingtonpost.com/web/20170617103337/https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2017/06/15/quantum-entanglement-sciences-spookiest-phenomenon-achieved-in-space/?utm_term=.7072128ff2dd https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2017/06/15/quantum-entanglement-sciences-spookiest-phenomenon-achieved-in-space/ June 17, 2017 0190-8286 2269358 https://archive.ph/rtyhP On board the Chinese satellite Micius, which launched last year, a high energy laser was fired through a special kind of crystal, generating entangled photon pairs. This in itself was a feat: the process is sensitive to turbulence, and before the experiment launched scientists weren't completely sure it would work. These photons were transmitted to ground stations in Delingha, a city on the Tibetan Plateau, and Lijiang, in China's far southwest.
en January 2, 2022 Tony Munroe; Min Zhang Earthquake in southwest China's Yunnan injures 15 people Neil Fullick https://web.archive.org/web/20220102094935/https://www.reuters.com/world/china/earthquake-southwest-chinas-yunnan-injures-15-people-2022-01-02/ 02 January 2022 https://www.reuters.com/world/china/earthquake-southwest-chinas-yunnan-injures-15-people-2022-01-02/ w:Reuters China A 5.5 magnitude earthquake that rattled the city of Lijiang in southwestern China's Yunnan province on Sunday injured 15 people, the Yunnan Earthquake Agency said on its social media feed.
Translations
a prefecture-level city in west China
Arabic: ar لِيجْيَانْغ m lijyanḡ
Chinese:
Cantonese: yue 麗江 lai6 gong1
Mandarin: cmn 麗江 Lìjiāng
Japanese: ja 麗江 れいこう, Reikō
Korean: ko ^리장
Macedonian: mk Ли́џианг m
Naxi: nxq Liljai, nxq Yiggv
Nuosu: ii ^ꆺꏦ
Russian: ru Лицзя́н m
Vietnamese: vi Lệ Giang
References
Further reading
en 1998 Lijiang Saul B. Cohen The Columbia Gazetteer of the World https://archive.org/details/columbiagazettee02cohe/ 2 New York Columbia University Press 0-231-11040-5 98-071262 164337564 1736 https://archive.org/details/columbiagazettee02cohe/page/1736/ 2
Anagrams
en agiijln Jingali jailing
en 2-syllable words