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Gansu
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gansu Gānsù
English
Alternative forms
en Kansu Kansuh Kan-suh obsolete
en Kan-su 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.Gansu Province/Kan-su, romanization of the en cmn 甘肅 Gānsù.
Pronunciation
gän′so͞o′Gansu geographical name Gan·su ˈgän-ˈsü variants or KansuKansu 908 1Kan·su or Kan-su 371 2
en uː 2
en Gan su
en
Proper noun
en Q42392en province in northwestern c/China Lanzhou.
en October 16, 2015 Matt O'Brien This is where China’s future will be decided. w:The Washington Post https://web.archive.org/web/20151116160215/https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/10/16/this-is-where-chinas-future-will-be-decided/ 16 November 2015 0190-8286 2269358 Wonkblog This is Lanzhou, the old Silk Road outpost that has matured into a metropolis of almost 4 million as the capital of Gansu province in China’s still-poor northwest. And as your lungs can attest, it is one of the most polluted cities in the country.
en 27 April 2021 Wall of sand engulfs Chinese town https://web.archive.org/web/20210427073426/https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20210427-wall-of-sand-engulfs-chinese-town 27 April 2021 w:France 24 A towering wall of sand rushed over factories and apartment blocks in northwestern China's Gansu province as seasonal sandstorms barrelled across the country, causing air pollution and traffic accidents.Aerial images as it struck showed an apocalyptic scene as a billowing cloud of yellow dust smothered Gansu's Linze county on Sunday.
Derived terms
en Gansu Corridor
Descendants
Latin: mul gansuensis
Translations
province of China
Arabic: ar قَانْسُو m qansū, ar غَانْسُو m ḡansū
Burmese: my ကန်းစု
Chinese:
Cantonese: yue 甘肅
Dungan: dng Гансў
Mandarin: cmn 甘肅 Gānsù
Czech: cs Kan-su
Esperanto: eo Gansuo
Finnish: fi Gansu
Georgian: ka განსუ
Greek: el Κανσού f
Hindi: hi गांसू m
Hungarian: hu Kanszu
Indonesian: id Gansu
Japanese: ja 甘粛 かんしゅく, Kanshuku
Korean: ko ^간쑤, ko 감숙
Lü: khb
Macedonian: mk Гансу
Manchu: mnc ᡬᠠᠨᠰᡠ, mnc ᡬᠠᠨ ᠰᡠ
Marathi: mr कान्सु
Mongolian: mn Ганьсү
Polish: pl Gansu n
Russian: ru Ганьсу́ f indeclinable
Swedish: sv Gansu n
Thai: th กานซู่, th กังซก
Tibetan: bo ཀན་སུའུ
Uyghur: ug گەنسۇ
Vietnamese: vi Cam Túc
Zhuang: za Ganhsuz
See also
References
Further reading
Gansu, Kansu, Kansuh, Kan-su, Kan-suh
pn
en 2008 Gansu 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 1316 https://archive.org/details/columbiagazettee0000unse_l7h3/page/1316/ 1, 2
Anagrams
en agnsu Agnus sunga guans Ganus Aungs Sangu ungas Angus gusan sugan Śuṅga Sunga angus saung Sagun Guans gunas
en 2-syllable words