Jiyuan

See also: jīyuán, jìyuán, and jìyuàn

English

Alternative forms

• Chiyuan, Chi-yüan (Wade–Giles)

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 濟源／济源 (Jǐyuán).

Proper noun

Jiyuan

1. A sub-prefectural city in Henan, China.
   • [1891 January 2 [1890 November 29], “River Administration in Honan”, in North-China Herald‎^[1], volume XLVI, number 1222, Shanghai, →OCLC, page 11, column 2:

     The River Ch'in, he explains, rises in Shansi and after entering Honan at Chi-yüan continues its course through the two districts of Ho-nei and Wuchih until it joins the Tatan River and eventually empties itself into the Yellow River.]

   • 2009, F. Lisheng, T. Qingjun, “Crank-Connecting Rod Mechanism”, in International Symposium on History of Machines and Mechanisms‎^[2], →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 247:

     Since the 1970s, models of pottery winnowing-machines have been unearthed continually in Jiyuan and Luoyang, at the Henan province and in Ruicheng, at the Shanxi province. Among them, a winnowing-machine model unearthed in Sijiangou, Jiyuan could be traced back to the period of the Western Han (Fig. 23) [13].

   • 2010 June 30, Polly Yam, “Three lead smelters in China Jiyuan phase out capacity -sources”, in Ed Lane, editor, Reuters‎^[3], archived from the original on 01 March 2023, MINING & METALS - SPECIALTY:

     Three lead smelters in Jiyuan city in Henan, China’s top lead producing province, phased out 150,000 tonnes a year of capacity in the first half of the year on environment issues, sources at two of the smelters said on Wednesday.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Jiyuan.

Translations

sub-prefectural city

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 濟源／济源 (zh) (Jǐyuán)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Jiyuan”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[4], volume 2, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1452, column 3