P'an-chih-hua

English

Etymology

From Mandarin 攀枝花 (Pānzhīhuā) Wade–Giles romanization: Pʻan¹-chih¹-hua¹.

Proper noun

P'an-chih-hua

1. Alternative form of Panzhihua
   • 1909, Major H. R. Davies, Yün-Nan: The Link between India and the Yangtze‎^[2], Cambridge University Press, →OCLC, →OL, page 194:

     Sleeping at Pai-ta, which stands on a sort of little terrace in the hillside overlooking the Salween, we descended the next morning by an exceedingly steep path to what is often known as the P’an-chih-hua ferry. It should be more correctly called Chuan-shui, as the real P’an-chih-hua is a mile or two lower down and is now disused as a ferry.

   • 1960 April 11, “New Mineral Resources Discovered”, in Weekly Report on Communist China‎^[3], number 20, →OCLC, page 4:

     Deposits of 150 million tons are in P'an-chih-hua in Yunnan.

   • 1961, Sciences in Communist China: A Symposium Presented at the New York Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, December 26-27, 1960‎^[4], American Association for the Advancement of Science, →OCLC, page 505:

     The copper-nickel deposits which are related to diorite, gabbro, pyroxenite, and dunite intrusives in pre-Sinian metamorphic rocks were also reported from east of Pʻan-chih-hua in the north-south folded belt of Yunnan and Sikang provinces

Translations

Panzhihua — see Panzhihua