An-k'ang

See also: ānkāng, ànkāng, and Ankang

English

Etymology

From Mandarin 安康 (Ānkāng), Wade–Giles romanization: An¹-kʻang¹.

Proper noun

An-k'ang

1. Alternative form of Ankang
   • 1962, “Notes on Translation”, in Albert E. Dien, transl., Biography of Yü-wen Hu (Chinese Dynastic Histories Translations)‎^[1], number 9, University of California Press, →OCLC, page 100:

     Shan-nan at this period seems to have referred tothe upper Han River valley, extending down river at least as far as An-k‘ang in Shensi; this may be inferred from cases of Shan-nan in CS 44.7b, 8a and 8b, and CS 33.16a.

   • 1967, Philip Yampolsky, The Platform Sutra of the Sixth Patriarch‎^[2], New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, pages 52–53, 185:

     Traditionally, the founder is given as Nan-yüeh Huai-jang (677-744),¹⁹⁰ who is known as a disciple of Hui-neng. Information about him is based on sources composed much later than his death; no mention is made of him in any eighth-century work, and with the last volume of the Pao-lin chuan missing, we cannot seek for material there. He is said to have been a native of An-k’ang in Chin-chou,¹⁹¹ and, after becoming a monk, to have studied under Hui-an, the disciple of the Fifth Patriarch, remarkable for the great age to which he attained. […]
     ¹⁹¹ An-k’ang hsien, Shensi. […]
     An-k’ang; Ankang; 安康

   • [1980, James Chan, edited by C. K. Leung and Norton Ginsburg, China: Urbanization and National Development‎^[3], →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 16:

     During the period of the Fourth Five-Year Plan, 1971-75, the Chuchou-Kueiting line, which forms part of the east-west trunk line from Hangchou to K'unming, was completed, while other possible construction included the central segment of a line linking Peking with Yuanping, Shanhsi province, and lines linking Wuhan through Ank'ang, Shenhsi province, with Chungking, Ssuch'uan province, and with Luehyang on the Paochi-Chengtu line.]

   • 1986, Kwang-chih Chang, The Archaeology of Ancient China‎^[4], 4th edition, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 155:

     Going west from here and upstream along the Han-shui River we encounter the An-k’ang and Han-chung districts of southern Shensi. In the An-k’ang district several sites were identified in the last decade, yielding mostly Li-chia-ts’un-type cord-marked pottery, with some mixture of Pan-p’o and Miao-ti-kou sherds.

Further reading

• Ankang, An-k'ang at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.