Qilian

See also: qǐlián

English

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 祁連 / 祁连 (Qílián).

Proper noun

Qilian

1. A county of Haibei, Qinghai, China.
   • [1972 August 23 [1972 August 19], “Tsinghai Stresses Enrollment Procedures for Colleges”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China, volume I, number 165, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Sining Tsinghai Provincial Service, translation of original in Mandarin, →ISSN, →OCLC, People's Republic of China: Northwest Region, page H 4:

     A Tibetan-nationality woman cadre in (Tolien) commune, Chilien County, Haipei Tibetan Autonomous Chou, fearing no hardships, made a 4-day journey on horseback to register for college enrollment in the county seat.]

   • 2005 June 24 [2005 May 26], Chris Taylor, anonymous quotee, “Outbreak cover-up?”, in Henry Niman (using Alta Vista's Babelfish translator), transl., South China Morning Post‎^[1], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on October 05, 2018‎^[2]:

     The reports of the past few days have been made by the nine of us from around Gangcha county and Qilian county, because we wanted to really understand the avian influenza situation in Qinghai. We came disguised as tourists to carry out on-the-spot interviews ... only by coming to this place can you realise just how poor China can be. Anyone with a conscience would shed tears.

Translations

county

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 祁連 / 祁连 (zh) (Qílián)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can