Lichuan

See also: Li-ch'uan

English

Alternative forms

• Lichwan (Postal Romanization)
• Li-ch'uan (Wade–Giles)

Etymology 1

From Mandarin 利川 (Lìchuān).

Proper noun

Lichuan

1. A county-level city in Enshi, Hubei, China.
   • 1985 December, David Livingstone, S. Jeyanthi Bai, Md. Yacoob, “Functional Anatomy of the Egg and Nymphal Morphology of the Grass Tingid Agramma hupehanum (Drake & Maa) (Heteroptera: Tingidae) with a Note on its Egg Parasites”, in Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society‎^[1], volume 82, number 3, published 1986, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 483:

     Agramma hupehanum was first reported from the Lichuan District, Western Hupeh, China by Drake and Maa on July 17, 1947.

   • 2021 October 11, Michael Standaert, Eva Dou, “In search for covid origins, Hubei caves and wildlife farms draw new scrutiny”, in Washington Post‎^[2], archived from the original on 11 October 2021, Asia & Pacific:

     Tourists pass over a bridge above where the Qing River flows through Tenglong Cave, near Lichuan in Enshi prefecture.

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

Translations

county-level city in central China

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 利川 (zh) (Lìchuān)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can
• Manchu: ᠯᡳ
  ᠴᡠᠸᠠᠨ (li cuwan), ᠯᡳᡳ
  ᠴᡠᠸᠠᠨ (lii cuwan)

See also

• Icheon

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Lichuan”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[3], volume 2, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1733, column 2

Etymology 2

From Mandarin 黎川 (Líchuān).

Proper noun

Lichuan

1. A county of Fuzhou, Jiangxi, China.

Translations

county in Jiangxi

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 黎川 (zh) (Líchuān)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Lichuan”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[4], volume 2, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1733, column 3