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Jiayuguan
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English
Alternative forms
en Chia-yu-kuan Chiayukuan Wade-Giles
Etymology
From the en cmn-pinyin - romanization of en cmn 嘉峪關.
Pronunciation
jyä′yü′gwän′Kiayükwan or Chia-yü-kuan 942 3
en Jia yu guan
Proper noun
en prefecture-level city province/Gansu c/China.
en 1977 Flavio Conti The Great Wall, People's Republic of China w:Patrick Creagh Breaking the Confines The Grand Tour https://archive.org/details/breakingconfines00cont/ 1978 New York w:Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 0-15-003730-9 78-56251 4003694 55 https://archive.org/details/breakingconfines00cont/page/55/ 3 This reconstructed Great Wall stretched from the River Yalu in the east, on the border with Korea, to Chiayükuan in Kansu Province. on
en 1979 Paul Hulton; Lawrence Smith Naturalism in Sung China Flowers in Art from East and West https://archive.org/details/flowersinartfrom00hult/ w:Jarrold and Sons 0-7141-0098-6 251612656 3 https://archive.org/details/flowersinartfrom00hult/page/n16/ There is a striving towards naturalism in agricultural scenes painted on bricks in tombs of the third century AD recently excavated at Chia-yü-kuan in Kansu Province which is reminiscent of later European illuminated manuscripts such as the English fifteenth-century Luttrell Psalter in the British Library. on
en November 29, 2022 w:Keith Bradsher China to Launch 3 Astronauts to New Space Station: How to Watch w:The New York Times https://web.archive.org/web/20221129051117/https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/29/world/asia/china-space-launch-astronauts.html 29 November 2022 https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/29/world/asia/china-space-launch-astronauts.html 0362-4331 1645522 Asia Pacific Jiuquan is 150 miles into the Gobi Desert from the nearest city, Jiayuguan in Gansu Province.
Descendants
Translingual: Chiayusaurus genus
Translations
prefecture-level city
Chinese:
Cantonese: yue 嘉峪關
Mandarin: cmn 嘉峪關 Jiāyùguān
Japanese: ja 嘉峪関 かよくかん, Kayokukan
Manchu: mnc ᠰᠠᡳᠨ ᡥᠣᠯᠣ ᡶᡠᡵᡩᠠᠨ
References
Further reading
Jiayuguan
en 1998 Jiayuguan 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 1447 https://archive.org/details/columbiagazettee02cohe/page/1447/ 3