Tongchuan

See also: tóngchuán

English

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 銅川／铜川 (Tóngchuān).

Proper noun

Tongchuan

1. A prefecture-level city in Shaanxi, China.
   • [1973, Chiao-min Hsieh, “North China”, in Christopher L. Salter, editor, Atlas of China‎^[1], McGraw-Hill, Inc., →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 125, column 2:

     Shensi has abundant coal deposits distributed throughout the province, one of the largest being at T’ung-ch’uan.]

   • 2006 October 29, “Briefly: 2 managers are jailed in blast that killed 166 - Asia - Pacific - International Herald Tribune”, in The New York Times‎^[2], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 29 December 2022, Asia Pacific‎^[3]:

     The blast, one of the worst in China in decades, hit the Chenjiashan coal mine in Tongchuan in the northwestern province of Shaanxi just days after the pit had caught fire.

   • 2022 December 22, Zoey Zhang, Bernard Orr, Martin Pollard, Ella Cao, Casey Hall, Marius Zaharia, Ben Blanchard, “Shanghai hospital warns of 'tragic battle' as COVID spreads”, in Lincoln Feast, Jacqueline Wong, Toby Chopra, editors, Reuters‎^[4], archived from the original on December 23, 2022, China‎^[5]:

     Tongchuan, a city of 700,000 in the northwestern province of Shaanxi, called on Wednesday for all medical workers who retired in the past five years to join the battle against COVID.

Translations

prefecture-level city

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 銅川／铜川 (zh) (Tóngchuān)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can

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