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Putian
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putian Pútián
English
Alternative forms
en P'u-t'ien Pu-tien Putien Wade-Giles
Etymology
From the en cmn-pinyin -en 1972 Shabad Theodore Index China's Changing Map https://archive.org/details/chinaschangingma0000unse/ New York Frederick A. Praeger 71-178868 482667885 345, 360 https://archive.org/details/chinaschangingma0000unse/page/360/ Chinese place names are listed in three common spelling styles:(1) the Post Office system,(2) the Wade-Giles system,shown after the main entry(3) the Chinese Communists' own Pinyin romanization system, which also appears in parenthesesPutien (P'u-t'ien, Putian)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, 235 https://archive.org/details/culturalatlasofc00blun_0/page/235/ Names in italics represent the Wade-Giles equivalent of the preceding Pinyin transcription.Putian/P'u-t'ien 25°32′N 119°02′E, 222 romanization of the en cmn 莆田.
Pronunciation
po͞o′tyĕn′Putien or P’u-t’ien 1535 2 Putien or P’u-t’ien (po͞o′tyĕn′),Until 1913 called Hinghwa.
en Pu tian
Proper noun
en prefecture-level city p/Fujian c/China.
en 3 February 1987 5 July 1986 Zhiqin Wang; Wang Yang SOLVING FUJIAN'S GRAIN PROBLEM: "The Crux of the Grain Problem in Fujian and How To Deal With It" China Report Economic Affairs https://archive.org/details/DTIC_ADA336147/ !JPRS-CEA-87-007 w:Foreign Broadcast Information Service 5722779 87 https://archive.org/details/DTIC_ADA336147/page/n93/ Since we mainly rely on shipping grain into southern Fujian by sea, we could construct modern docks and warehouses for grain at the ports of Xiamen, Jinzhou, Xiaocuo, and Putian Xiuyu, and organize a special shipping brigade to transport grain in, and to ship out cane sugar, fruits, aquatic products, and special local products.
en 21 March 1996 18 March 1996 Jixiong (0149 2623 7160) He There Is a Feeling of Insecurity on Jinmen, Mazu, and Other Islands Daily Report: China https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015036099052&seq=577 96-056 w:Foreign Broadcast Information Service 0892-015X 7522935 75 https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015036099052&seq=657 2 Located at the southern end of the exercise area, Wuqiu Dao consists of two islets - Daqiucun [Dachiu-tsunTachiu-tsun] and Xiaoqiucun [Hsiaochiu-tsun] with each covering approximately one square km. Formerly a township under Fujian's Putian County, its main dialect is similar to the one spoken in the Putian and Xianyou area. It was placed under the administration of Jinmen County after the Kuomintang Government retreated from the mainland.
en 2007 The Journal of Offshore Technology https://books.google.com/books?id=TlkdAQAAIAAJ 15 0968-784X 31275957 2 Located at Xiuyu, Putian, to the north of Meizhou Bay, the designed capacity for Phase 1 is 2.6Mt pa, with two LNG tanks each with a capacity of 145 000m².
en 2013 Rongxing Guo Regional China: A Business and Economic Handbook https://books.google.com/books?id=DJ_9_raK1KcC 978-1-349-44981-1 864656119 44 https://books.google.com/books?id=DJ_9_raK1KcC&pg=PA44 The Wuchiu (Wuqiu) Islands are nominally administered in the PRC by the Xiuyu District of the Putian prefecture, but are in reality controlled by the Republic of China, which administers Wuchiu (Wuqiu) as part of Quemoy (Jinmen) County.
en MAY 03, 2017 Feeding the passion Business Times (Singapore) Business Times https://web.archive.org/web/20170701004330/https://www.businesstimes.com.sg/magazines/the-sme-magazine-mayjune-2017/feeding-the-passion 01 July 2017 Putien started in 1987, when Mr Fong ventured out of his hometown of Putian, a small agricultural coastal village in China, and arrived in Singapore. He established Putien in October 2000 as a small coffee shop on Kitchener Road, operating with seven staff. For the first few years, Putien sustained losses. But Mr Fong clung to his goal of providing authentic Fujian cuisine.
en 11/23/2020 Chinese Government Tells Churches to Worship the Communist Party or be Closed https://web.archive.org/web/20201123192842/https://www1.cbn.com/cbnnews/cwn/2020/november/chinese-government-tells-churches-to-worship-the-communist-party-or-be-closed 11/23/2020 w:Christian Broadcasting Network The magazine Bitter Winter reports the government's religious affairs department of Putian spent around $75,000 last month to turn the first floor of the Three-Self Church located in the Xiuyu district's Daitou town into a publicity center to promote the Communist Party and its leaders.
Synonyms
en Henghua, en Hinghwa, en Xinghua
Translations
prefecture-level city in Fujian
Chinese:
Cantonese: yue 莆田 pou4 tin4
Eastern Min: cdo 莆田 Buò-dièng
Hokkien: nan-hbl 莆田 Phô͘-chhân
Mandarin: cmn 莆田 Pútián
Hungarian: hu Putien
Korean: ko 푸톈, ko 포전(莆田)
References
Further reading
Putian, P'u-t'ien, Pu-tien, Putien
en 1998 Putian 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 2537 https://archive.org/details/columbiagazettee03cohe/page/2537/ 2
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