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Qianjiang
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Qiánjiāng
English
Alternative forms
en Ch'ien-chiang Wade-Giles
Pronunciation
chyĕn′jyäng′en 1952 Kienkiang or Ch’ien-chiang Leon E. Seltzer The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World https://archive.org/details/columbialippinco00selt/ Morningside Heights, NY Columbia University Press 802473294 943 https://archive.org/details/columbialippinco00selt/page/943/ 3
en Qian jiang
Etymology 1
From the en cmn-pinyin - romanization of the en cmn 潛江.
Alternative forms
en Tsienkiang historical obsolete
Proper noun
en sub-prefecture-level city province/Hubei c/China formerly a county.
en 9 July 1965 7 June 1965 Chienchiang County Reports Increase in Crops Daily Report: Foreign Radio Broadcasts https://books.google.com/books?id=KnNy9f180_oC&pg=RA4-PP5 131 https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=osu.32435063969216&seq=7 w:Foreign Broadcast Information Service Wuhan Domestic Service cmn 1541329 Communist China: Regional Affairs DDD 2 https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=osu.32435063969216&seq=55 Good news on the summer harvest prevailed in the countryside of Chienchiang County, Hupeh. The county reported remarkable increased in its 600,000 mou of summer food crops this year, surpassing the yield in 1962 which was considered as the best year. on
en 2011 Jianfei (zh 刘建飞) Liu zh:民主中国与世界<t:Democracy and China> https://archive.org/details/democracychina0000liuj/ Beijing w:New World Press 978-7-5104-1224-0 761052840 109 https://archive.org/details/democracychina0000liuj/page/109/ The construction of democratic politics in some regions went backward. For example, Qianjiang Municipality in Hubei Province was given an award as the National Model City of the Villagers’ Autonomy by the Ministry of Civil Affairs, but “there was an incident in which most of the members of the villagers’ committees were unlawfully replaced by the township governments.”
en NOVEMBER 15, 2016 Javier C. Hernández ‘We Have a Fake Election’: China Disrupts Local Campaigns w:The New York Times https://web.archive.org/web/20161116023027/https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/16/world/asia/beijing-china-local-elections.html 16 November 2016 0362-4331 1645522 Asia Pacific In Qianjiang City, in the central province of Hubei, activists said in interviews that they had been followed by the police and blocked from speaking with voters.
Translations
a sub-prefecture-level city in central China
Chinese:
Cantonese: yue 潛江
Mandarin: cmn 潛江 Qiánjiāng
Further reading
en 1998 Qianjiang 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 2545 https://archive.org/details/columbiagazettee03cohe/page/2545/ 3
Etymology 2
From the en cmn - Chinese pronunciation for 黔江.
Proper noun
en district direct-administered municipality/Chongqing c/China.
en JANUARY 17, 2013 John Kemp COLUMN-China offers greatest prize of all for shale gas: Kemp https://web.archive.org/web/20230820151953/https://www.reuters.com/article/column-kemp-china-shale-idINL6N0AMAN220130117 20 August 2023 https://www.reuters.com/article/column-kemp-china-shale-idINL6N0AMAN220130117 w:Reuters Oil Report Sinopec’s first exploratory well, Qianye-1, in the Qianjiang district of Chongqing, was completed in early 2012 and flowed a significant amount of gas.
Translations
district
Chinese:
Cantonese: yue 黔江
Mandarin: cmn 黔江
Japanese: ja
References
Further reading
en 1998 Qianjiang 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 2545 https://archive.org/details/columbiagazettee03cohe/page/2545/ 3
en 2-syllable words