P'ien-kuan

English

Etymology

From Mandarin 偏關 / 偏关 (Piānguān) Wade–Giles romanization: Pʻien¹-kuan¹.

Proper noun

P'ien-kuan

1. Alternative form of Pianguan
   • 1968, Kwang-chih Chang, The Archaeology of Ancient China‎^[1], Yale University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 162:

     The Ordos area in northern Shensi and southern Suiyüan is famous for its Upper Palaeolithic industries, and recent discoveries in the neighborhood of P’ien-kuan Hsien in northwestern Shansi and Ch’ing-shui-ho Hsien in southern Suiyüan appear to indicate Mesolithic assemblages characterized by microblade artifacts and points and scrapers made on “Mousterian” flakes, features resembling the Sha-yüan assemblage of the lower Weishui Valley in central Shensi.

   • 1988, Robin D. S. Yates, “Selected Translations”, in Washing Silk: The Life and Selected Poetry of Wei Chuang (834?-910)‎^[2], Harvard University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 68:

     Kuan River flows outside the south gate of P’ien-kuan county, Shansi; it flows west from its source, Wu-mien-ching-pao, into the Yellow River.

   • 1990, Arthur Waldron, The Great Wall of China: From History to Myth‎^[3], Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 158:

     In Han and T’ang times, he pointed out, when the capital had been at Hsi-an, dynasties had been particularly concerned with the northwest: P’ien-kuan and Shuo-fang.

Further reading

• Leon E. Seltzer, editor (1952), “Pienkwan or P’ien-kuan”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World‎^[4], Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 1471, column 1