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Nanchuan
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Nánchuān nánchuán
English
Nanchuan District
Alternative forms
en Nan-ch'uan Wade-Giles
Etymology
From the en cmn - Chinese pronunciation for 南川.
Pronunciation
nän′chwän′Nanchwan or Nan-ch’uan 1281 1
en Nan chuan
Proper noun
en district city/Chongqing c/China.
en 1957 July w:Elizabeth McClintock Hydrangeas National Horticultural Magazine https://archive.org/details/sim_american-gardener_1957-07_36_3/ 36 3 w:American Horticultural Society 0097-1308 8576033 277 https://archive.org/details/sim_american-gardener_1957-07_36_3/page/277/ A specimen collected at Nanchuan, Szechuan, by the two German collectors Bock and von Rosthorn, was named H. xanthoneura.
en 12 Aug 2014 Floods batter southwestern China https://web.archive.org/web/20220507142138/https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2014/8/12/floods-batter-southwestern-china 07 May 2022 w:Al Jazeera Sanquan township in Nanchuan district, Chongqing, has received 305mm of rain in the past three days, the heaviest downpour since records began, the official Xinhua news agency reported on Tuesday, citing meteorological authorities.[...]In Nanchuan district, two road workers were reported missing, while 32 homes collapsed, and 360 were evacuated, Xinhua reported.
Translations
district
Chinese:
Cantonese: yue 南川
Mandarin: cmn 南川
Japanese: ja
References
en 2-syllable words