Liaoyuan

See also: liáoyuǎn and Liáoyuán

English

Alternative forms

• Liao-yüan (Wade–Giles)

Etymology

From Mandarin 遼源 / 辽源 (Liáoyuán).

Proper noun

Liaoyuan

1. A prefecture-level city in Jilin, China.
   • 1969 April 23 [1969 April 22], “Kirin Barbershop Serves Peasants, Workers”, in Daily Report: Communist China, volume I, number 78, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Peking NCNA International Service, →OCLC, Communist China: Northeast Region, page G 2:

     A barber shop in Liaoyuan, Kirin Province, Northeast China, is described by workers, peasants and soldiers as close to their hearts. Changes in this barber shop show the tranformation^{[sic – meaning transformation]} in China's service trades as a result of tempering in the great proletarian cultural revolution launched more than two years ago.

   • 2009 March 24, Michael Wines, “China Daily Assails Prisoner Abuses”, in The New York Times‎^[1], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 09 April 2009, Asia Pacific‎^[2]:

     During its meeting this month, the party-controlled legislature, the National People’s Congress, established a committee to investigate the centers. It recently conducted surprise inspections in Liaoyuan, a city in Jilin Province, the newspaper reported.

   • 2015, Michael Meyer, “Quid Pro Quo”, in In Manchuria: A Village Called Wasteland and the Transformation of Rural China‎^[3], Bloomsbury Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 21:

     They waited on the platform as our overnight train pulled into Liaoyuan, a small (by Chinese standards) Northeastern city of one million people. They were my first impression of Manchuria, and I liked them immediately.

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

Translations

prefecture-level city

• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 遼源 / 辽源 (liu⁴ jyun⁴)

  Mandarin: 遼源 / 辽源 (zh) (Liáoyuán)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can

Further reading

• Liaoyuan in Encyclopædia Britannica
• “Liaoyuan”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• “Liaoyuan”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• “Liaoyuan” in TheFreeDictionary.com, Huntingdon Valley, Pa.: Farlex, Inc., 2003–2025.
• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Liaoyuan”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[4], volume 2, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1729, column 2