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Nan-ch'uan
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Nanchuan
English
Etymology
From en cmn 南川 en cmn-wadegiles - romanization: cmn Nan²-chʻuan¹.
Proper noun
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en Nanchuan.
en 1914 Alexander Hosie On the Trail of the Opium Poppy https://archive.org/details/ontrailofopiump01hosi/ I Boston w:Small, Maynard & Company 3633929 251 https://archive.org/details/ontrailofopiump01hosi/page/251/ Meeting us came porters with loads of coal, coke, and lime, in which the district of Nan-ch'uan Hsien is rich. Many loads of pan salt from the Tzu-liu-ching brine wells in Central Szechuan were also bound for Nan-ch'uan Hsien, three miles from which we again struck the right bank of the Nan-ch'uan River, flowing north.
en 1967 Tsing Hua Journal of Chinese Studies zh 清華學報 https://books.google.com/books?id=zzoKAAAAIAAJ 6 1-2 0577-9170 1554381 77 As copper-silver exchange rate was not available for Nan-ch'uan county, the exchange rate for Ho-chiang county was taken.