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Hechuan
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héchuān
English
Hechuan District
Alternative forms
en Ho-ch'uan Wade-Giles
Etymology
From the en cmn 合川.
Pronunciation
hŭ′chwän′Hochwan or Ho-ch’uan 790 3 Until 1913 called Hochow zh 合州.
en He chuan
Proper noun
en district city/Chongqing c/China.
en 1941 Anor Lin Sung Dugout Dawn Over Chungking https://archive.org/details/dawnoverchungkin011682mbp/ New York w:John Day Company 483279305 87 https://archive.org/details/dawnoverchungkin011682mbp/page/n98/ "Hello, hello, hello! What? Hochuan? This is Peipei. Planes over Hochuan? Toward Peipei? No, not here. ... Bombing heard? Where, southward?" Then the man would hang up and turn the crank again, and shout to Chungking or some other place, "Peipei calling, planes over Hochuan, toward Peipei, Peipei." Very soon we would hear planes over our heads. on
en October 10, 2014 Yang Xin Outcry as Rapist Walks Free w:Beijing Today 696 https://archive.org/details/BeijingTodayCN20141010B/ 958634538 1 https://archive.org/details/BeijingTodayCN20141010B/ On September 12, a man named Xiao Gang (pseudonym) was walking along BinjiangLu in Hechuan District, Chongqing when he was suddenly grabbed and forced into an abandoned home on the side of the road and sexually assaulted by Xiao Yong (pseudonym).
en APRIL 7, 2017 BRIEF-China Fortune Land Development signs MoU with local governments https://web.archive.org/web/20210516111219/https://www.reuters.com/article/brief-china-fortune-land-development-sig-idUSL3N1HF36V 16 May 2021 https://www.reuters.com/article/brief-china-fortune-land-development-sig-idUSL3N1HF36V w:Reuters China Fortune Land Development Co Ltd :* Says it signs MoU with Chongqing Hechuan district government and Kunshan Bacheng government 15 October 2023
Descendants
Translingual: Mamenchisaurus hochuanensis species
Translations
district
Chinese:
Cantonese: yue 合川
Mandarin: cmn 合川
Japanese: ja
References
Further reading
en 1998 Hechuan Saul B. Cohen The Columbia Gazetteer of the World https://archive.org/details/columbiagazettee02cohe/ 2 New York Columbia University Press 0-231-11040-5 98-071262 164337564 1258 https://archive.org/details/columbiagazettee02cohe/page/1258/ 3
en 2-syllable words