Chunhua

See also: chūnhuà

English

Etymology

From Mandarin 淳化 (Chúnhuà).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t͡ʃuːnˈhwɑː/, enPR: cho͝onʹhwäʹ

Proper noun

Chunhua

1. A county of Xianyang, Shaanxi, China.
   • 1978 June, Staff Reporter, “Turning the Yellow Hills Green”, in China Reconstructs‎^[2], volume XXVII, number 6, Peking, →OCLC, page 30:

     THE road in Chunhua county, Shensi province was lined with poplar trees. Waiting at a bus stop beneath one of them was a woman commune member with a child of four or five. The child kept running among the young trees, occasionally shaking them. "Don't do that," the mother scolded. "Everybody takes care of the trees and you should too."
     In fact, most of the roads in Chunhua county are now lined with trees and most of the people do feel about them like this farm mother.

   • [1994 [145–86 BCE], Ssu-ma Chʻien, “The Filial and Cultured [Emperor], Basic Annals 10”, in Cao Weiguo, transl., edited by William Nienhauser, The Grand Scribe's Records‎^[3], volume II, Indiana University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 167:

     The Kan-ch’üan (Sweet Spring) Palace was built on Kan-ch’üan Mountain, about fifteen miles northwest of modern Ch’un-hua 淳化 County in Shensi (T’an Ch’i-hsiang, 2:15).]

   • 2015 May 15, Chris Buckley, “Bus Goes Over Hillside in China, Killing at Least 35”, in The New York Times‎^[4], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 16 June 2022, Asia Pacific‎^[5]:

     A tour bus traveling through countryside in northwest China toppled off a steep hillside in Shaanxi Province on Friday, killing at least 35 people, according to state-run news media. It appeared to be the deadliest traffic accident in nine months in China, where the government has struggled to curtail the danger on roads and highways.
     The bus, traveling through Chunhua County, had about 46 people on board when it went off the side of the road, according to news reports citing county officials.

Translations

county

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 淳化 (zh) (Chúnhuà)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (2008), “Chunhua”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[6], 2nd edition, volume 1, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 799, column 2