Menyuan

English

Etymology

From the Mandarin 門源 / 门源 (Ményuán).

Proper noun

Menyuan

1. A Hui autonomous county in Haibei, Qinghai, China.
   • 1968 August 8 [1968 August 6], “Menyuan Hui Calls Agricultural Conference”, in Daily Report: Communist China, volume I, number 155, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Sining Tsinghai Provincial Service, translation of original in Mandarin, →OCLC, Communist China: Northwest Region, page H 1:

     The revolutionary committee of the Menyuan Hui Autonomous County recently called a conference to stir up an upsurge in agricultural mechanization throughout the country.

   • [2009, Ari Daniel Levine, “The Reigns of Hui-tsung (1100-1126) and Ch’in-tsung (1126-1127) and the Fall of the Northern Sung”, in The Cambridge History of Ancient China, volume 5, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 621:

     Jen-to-ch’üan roughly corresponds to the seat of modern Men-yüan county in Tsinghai province.]

   • 2016 January 20, Dean Yates, “Magnitude 6.1 earthquake hits central China, no reports of casualties”, in John Stonestreet, Toni Reinhold, editors, Reuters‎^[1], archived from the original on January 24, 2016, Green Business‎^[2]:

     China's official Xinhua news agency said there were no immediate reports of casualties from the tremor, which struck at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) in Menyuan county in Qinghai province.
     Phone services in Menyuan, home to around 150,000 people, were operating normally, it said.

Translations

Hui autonomous county

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 門源 / 门源 (zh) (Ményuán)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Menyuan”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[3], volume 2, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1952, column 2