Changyuan

See also: Chángyuán and chángyuǎn

English

Etymology

From Mandarin 長垣 / 长垣 (Chángyuán).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /(ˈ)t͡ʃæŋˈwɑn/, /(ˈ)t͡ʃɑŋ-/, enPR: chängʹyüǎnʹ

Proper noun

Changyuan

1. A county-level city in Xinxiang, Henan, China.
   • 1976 May 5 [1976 May 4], “Chengchow, Honan Honors Man Slain in Riot”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China, volume I, number 88, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Chengchow Honan Provincial Service, translation of original in Mandarin, →OCLC, Central-South Region, page H 1; republished as Summary of World Broadcasts: Far East‎^[2], 1976, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 14:

     Comrade Chiao Chun-liang was an operator in Chengchow Municipal Telecommunications Bureau. He was a native of Changyuan County, Honan, and was born in the family of a lower-middle peasant in the spring of 1936.

   • 2007 April 7, “Want a promotion? Treat mum well says China county”, in Reuters‎^[3], archived from the original on 02 April 2023, Oddly Enough‎^[4]:

     A county in central China plans in-depth checks on how its officials’ treat their parents, with those who are nice to their mum and dad first in line for promotion, Xinhua news agency reported on Saturday.
     Up to 500 family members, friends, colleagues and neighbours will be grilled by special investigators about the behaviour of each official from Changyuan county, including their family values and any drinking or gambling habits, the report said.

Translations

county-level city

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 長垣 / 长垣 (zh) (Chángyuán)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (2008), “Changyuan”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[5], 2nd edition, volume 1, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 726, column 3

Anagrams

• Yang-ch'üan, Yangchüan