Miyun

English

Etymology

From Mandarin 密雲／密云 (Mìyún).

Proper noun

Miyun

1. A district of Beijing, China.
   • 1974 [1973 February 2], Theodore Hsi-en Chen, “Taking All Society as their Factory—Peking University's Achievements in Educational Revolution in the Liberal Arts”, in The Maoist Educational Revolution‎^[1], Praeger Publishers, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 288:

     In 1971, the students in the Chinese department specializing in literature and their teachers went to a production brigade in Miyun County on Peking's outskirts to do some investigation work. The heroic deeds of Liu Mao-ching, the brigade's late Party branch secretary who had led the peasants in building a socialist new countryside, inspired them to do creative writing.

   • 2004 February 5, Christine Hauser, “At Least 37 Dead, 15 Injured in Festival Stampede in China”, in The New York Times‎^[2], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 02 September 2023, Asia Pacific‎^[3]:

     The news agency did not report the details of the accident, which took place in the Miyun County suburb on Thursday night, but it said the Chinese police confirmed there were 37 dead.

Translations

district

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 密雲／密云 (zh) (Mìyún)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can
• Manchu: ᠮᡳ
  ᠶᡡᠨ (mi yūn)

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Miyun”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[4], volume 2, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 2006, column 3