Tan-chiang-k'ou

English

Etymology

From Mandarin 丹江口 (Dānjiāngkǒu) Wade–Giles romanization: Tan¹-chiang¹-kʻou³.

Proper noun

Tan-chiang-k'ou

1. Alternative form of Danjiangkou
   • 1958, Water Resource Programs of the United States, Russia, and (Red) China‎^[2], Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, →OCLC, page 219:

     Planned also is a canal from Ching-chou on the Yellow River to Tan-chiang-k'ou on the upper Han River, linking the Yellow River with the Han River and the Yangtze.

   • 1960 March 30, Water Conservancy in Communist China During the Last Decade‎^[3], →OCLC, page 3:

     The 105 meter dam on the Hsin-an Chiang, the 110 meter dam at Tan-chiang-k'ou, the 140 meter dam at Liu-chia-hsia and the 165 meter cross-river-channel dam of the Pai Shan hydro-electric power plant are all open-slot gravity dams.

   • 1979, Charles Greer, Water Management in the Yellow River Basin of China‎^[4], University of Texas Press, published 2012, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 60:

     The completion of the enormous Tan-chiang-k'ou Reservoir on the Han River was announced in the spring of 1974.

Translations

Danjiangkou — see Danjiangkou