Liquan

English

Alternative forms

• Li-ch'üan (Wade–Giles)

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 禮泉 / 礼泉.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌliːˈt͡ʃwɛn/

Proper noun

Liquan

1. A county of Xianyang, Shaanxi, China.
   • [1970 July 23 [1970 July 10], “Shensi Coal Output”, in Daily Report: Communist China, volume I, number 142, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Sian Shensi Provincial, translation of original in Mandarin, →OCLC, Communist China: Northwest Region, page H 4:

     In the first half of this year Lichuan County built five small factories, including a cement works.]

   • [1974, Richard P. Suttmeier, “Technological Mobilization: Science, Technology, and the Chinese Masses”, in Research and Revolution: Science Policy and Societal Change in China‎^[1], Lexington Books, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 132:

     The account centers around Wang Pao-ching, a technical activist in Lichuan county, Shensi province. As early as 1952, Wang proposed that greatly increased maize yields could be realized with the introduction of scientific farming.]

   • 1984, Simon Holledge, Xi'an‎^[2], South China Printing, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 87:

     Interested parties can also go to the Fenghuo People's Commune of Liquan County although it is over 40 miles (60 km) from Xi'an in the direction of the Qian Ling.

   • 2017 May 1, “Tourists visit Yuanjiacun Village of Liquan County in NW China's Shaanxi”, in An, editor, Xinhua News Agency‎^[3], archived from the original on 24 May 2021:

     Li Man paints in her shop in Yuanjiacun Village of Liquan County, northwest China's Shaanxi Province, April 30, 2017.

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

Translations

county

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 禮泉 / 礼泉 (zh)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Liquan”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[4], volume 2, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1749, column 3