Jiayuguan

English

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 嘉峪關 / 嘉峪关 (Jiāyùguān).

Proper noun

Jiayuguan

1. A prefecture-level city in Gansu, China.
   • [1977, Flavio Conti, “The Great Wall, People's Republic of China”, in Patrick Creagh, transl., Breaking the Confines (The Grand Tour)‎^[1], New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, published 1978, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 55, column 3:

     This reconstructed Great Wall stretched from the River Yalu in the east, on the border with Korea, to Chiayükuan in Kansu Province.]

   • [1979, Paul Hulton, Lawrence Smith, “Naturalism in Sung China”, in Flowers in Art from East and West‎^[2], Jarrold and Sons, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 3:

     There is a striving towards naturalism in agricultural scenes painted on bricks in tombs of the third century AD recently excavated at Chia-yü-kuan in Kansu Province which is reminiscent of later European illuminated manuscripts such as the English fifteenth-century Luttrell Psalter in the British Library.]

   • 2022 November 29, Keith Bradsher, “China to Launch 3 Astronauts to New Space Station: How to Watch”, in The New York Times‎^[3], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 29 November 2022, Asia Pacific‎^[4]:

     Jiuquan is 150 miles into the Gobi Desert from the nearest city, Jiayuguan in Gansu Province.

Descendants

• Translingual: Chiayusaurus

Translations

prefecture-level city

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 嘉峪關 / 嘉峪关 (zh) (Jiāyùguān)

• Japanese: 嘉峪関 (かよくかん, Kayokukan)
• Manchu: ᠰᠠᡳᠨ
  ᡥᠣᠯᠣ
  ᡶᡠᡵᡩᠠᠨ (sain holo furdan)

Further reading

• Jiayuguan at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.
• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Jiayuguan”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[5], volume 2, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1447, column 3