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Enshi
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ēnshī Ēnshī
English
Enshi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture
Alternative forms
en Enshih Postal
en En-shih Wade-Giles
Etymology
From the en cmn-pinyin -en 1998 Blunden Caroline w:Mark Elvin Gazetteer Graham Speake Cultural Atlas of China https://archive.org/details/culturalatlasofc00blun_0/ Revised Facts on File Checkmark Books 0-8160-3814-7 98-34322 43168341 9770589M 232, 233 https://archive.org/details/culturalatlasofc00blun_0/page/233/ Names in italics represent the Wade-Giles equivalent of the preceding Pinyin transcription.Enshi/En-shih 30°20′N 108°57′E, romanization of the en cmn ^恩施.
Pronunciation
en /ˌʌnˈʃiː/
ŭn′shœ′Enshih 580 1 Until 1912, Shihnan zh 施南.
en En shi
Proper noun
en autonomous prefecture p/Hubei c/China.
en APRIL 26, 2012 Mark McDonald A Man on a Wire Above China’s ‘Grand Canyon’ https://web.archive.org/web/20221011075316/https://archive.nytimes.com/rendezvous.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/04/26/a-man-on-a-wire-above-chinas-grand-canyon/ 11 October 2022 https://archive.nytimes.com/rendezvous.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/04/26/a-man-on-a-wire-above-chinas-grand-canyon/ The line was strung above China’s so-called Grand Canyon, located in Enshi Prefecture in Hubei Province. It is a remote spot, rarely visited by tourists and unexplored even by experienced climbers or other extreme-sport athletes.
en county-level city autonomous prefecture/Enshi p/Hubei c/China.
en September 3, 2019 Amy Qin Attack at School in China Leaves at Least 8 Children Dead https://web.archive.org/web/20190903143006/https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/03/world/asia/china-attack-school.html 03 September 2019 Asia Pacific The attack occurred around 8 a.m. on the first day of the semester at the school in Chaoyangpo village of Enshi city in Hubei Province, the local police said.
en 04/08/2020 Wuhan exodus sparks virus hope despite mounting death toll w:France 24 https://web.archive.org/web/20200412023352/https://www.france24.com/en/20200408-wuhan-exodus-sparks-virus-hope-despite-mounting-death-toll https://www.france24.com/en/20200408-wuhan-exodus-sparks-virus-hope-despite-mounting-death-toll April 12, 2020 Wuhan (China) (Agence France-Presse AFP) "You have no idea! I was already up around 4 am. I felt so good. My kids are so excited. Mum is finally coming home," said Hao Mei, a 39-year-old single mother rushing to nearby Enshi to see her young children for the first time in two months.
Translations
autonomous prefecture in central China; county-level city in central China
Chinese:
Cantonese: yue 恩施
Mandarin: cmn 恩施 Ēnshī
Japanese: ja
References
Further reading
en 2008 Enshi Saul B. Cohen The Columbia Gazetteer of the World https://archive.org/details/columbiagazettee0000unse_l7h3/ 2nd 1 New York Columbia University Press 978-0-231-14554-1 2008009181 212893637 1154 https://archive.org/details/columbiagazettee0000unse_l7h3/page/1154/ 2
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