Anze

See also: Anže

English

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 安澤 / 安泽.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌɑːnˈ(d)zʌ/

Proper noun

Anze

1. A county of Linfen, Shanxi, China.
   • [1971, “Local Disease Controlled in An-tse County, Shansi”, in Translations on People's Republic of China‎^[1], Joint Publications Research Service, →OCLC:

     […] success in controlling the big joints disease in An-tse County to the PLA medical teams and to Chairman Mao's revolutionary line on health work.]

   • 1982 November 18 [1982 June 14], He Guang [4421 0342] [禾光], “How Afforestation Has Changed Gansu's Climate”, in Worldwide Report: Environmental Quality, number 377, United States Joint Publications Research Service, sourced from Lanzhou GANSU RIBAO p 4, translation of original in Chinese, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 121:

     The most spectacular change is the increase of rainfall in some areas, reaching an average annual of 100-120 mm. Linfen prefecture and Anze county in Shanxi have the most rainfall in the entire region because the afforested area has increased from the pre-Liberation coverage of 3.8 percent to 18 percent of their land area.

   • 2009 March 31, Rujun Shen, “Wanted: Mayor for accident-prone China coal city”, in Lucy Hornby, editor, Reuters‎^[2], archived from the original on 23 June 2022, Lifestyle:

     Firemen extinguish the fire during an explosion at a liquefied petroleum gas station in Anze county of Linfen, north China's Shanxi province November 28, 2006.

Translations

county

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 安澤 / 安泽 (zh)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (2008), “Anze”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[3], 2nd edition, volume 1, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 155, column 3

Anagrams

• Anez, Zane, naze, zean