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Qin'an
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English
Qin'an County
Etymology
From the en cmn-pinyin - romanization of the en cmn 秦安.
Pronunciation
en /ˈt͡ʃɪnˈɑn/ /-æn/
chĭn′än′en 1952 Tsinan or Ch’in-an Leon E. Seltzer The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World https://archive.org/details/columbialippinco00selt/ Morningside Heights, NY Columbia University Press 802473294 1952 https://archive.org/details/columbialippinco00selt/page/1952/ 3
en Qin an
Proper noun
en county prefecture-level city/Tianshui p/Gansu in northwestern c/China.
en 1959 w:Ping-ti Ho The Nature of Ming Population Data Studies on the Population of China, 1368-1953 https://archive.org/details/studiesonpopulat00hebi/ w:Harvard University Press 59-12970 185605317 iv, 12 https://archive.org/details/studiesonpopulat00hebi/page/12/ Likewise, the magistrate of Ch’in-an county in Kansu thought it by no means unreasonable from the fiscal point of view to report in 1535 so disproportionate a population as one of 12,424 males and 6,099 females. Ch'in-an HC zh 秦安 . 1535. on
en 1972 Hsin-wen Lan Finds from Kansu 中国新出土文物 New Archaeological Finds in China: Discoveries During the Cultural Revolution https://archive.org/details/newarchaeologica0000unse/ Peking w:Foreign Languages Press 568803 30 https://archive.org/details/newarchaeologica0000unse/page/30/ In 1967, 17 bronzes of the Chin Dynasty¹ (221-207 B.C.) were excavated at Shangyuanchia, Chinan County. on
en 1998 Li Te<t:zh 李特> Great Perfection: Religion and Ethnicity in a Chinese Millennial Kingdom<t:zh 大成> https://archive.org/details/greatperfectiont0000klee/ Honolulu w:University of Hawaiʻi Press 0-8248-1800-8 97-25798 37156336 117 https://archive.org/details/greatperfectiont0000klee/page/117/ Linwei, eighty li southeast of Qin’an county in Gansu, was the administrative center of Lueyang commandery (Dushi fangyu jiyao 59/2596; Zang 1936:849.1, 1293.1).
en 2008 Northwest China Chen Xuejian Travel Around China https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780061473548/ w:HarperCollins 978-0-06-1473548 671253768 9952934M 263 https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780061473548/page/263/ 3 Dadiwan Site is located in the gentle hillsides on the south bank of Qingshui River in Qinan County, Tianshui City. The earliest site dates from 7,800 years ago, and the most recent site dates from 4,800 years ago. on
Translations
county
Chinese:
Cantonese: yue 秦安
Mandarin: cmn 秦安 Qín'ān
References
Further reading
Qin'an, Ch'in-an, Chin-an, Chinan
en 1998 Qin'an Saul B. Cohen The Columbia Gazetteer of the World https://archive.org/details/columbiagazettee03cohe/ 3 New York Columbia University Press 0-231-11040-5 98-071262 164337564 2546 https://archive.org/details/columbiagazettee03cohe/page/2546/ 2