Tunxi

See also: Túnxī

English

Alternative forms

• T'un-hsi (Wade–Giles)
• Tunki (Postal Romanization)

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 屯溪 (Túnxī).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌtʊnˈʃiː/

Proper noun

Tunxi

1. A district of Huangshan, Anhui, China.
   • [1973 June, Nai Hsia, “600,000 Years of Labor and Struggle”, in China Reconstructs‎^[1], China Welfare Institute, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 24, column 3:

     The bronze vessels discovered at Tunhsi, in Anhwei province south of the Yangtze River, were found in several tombs of the Western Chou dynasty.]

   • 1980, Li Xueqin, 中国青铜器的奥秘 [The Wonder of Chinese Bronzes]‎^[2], Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, →OCLC, page 77:

     The same is true of Western Zhou bronzes excavated in Dantu county, Jiangsu Province, and Tunxi, Anhui Province.[...]The bronzes from a tomb of the Western Zhou at Yiqi, Tunxi, also have some of their own peculiar designs, such as a gui with a weaving pattern commonly seen on bamboo-woven articles of south China, but rarely encountered in the Central Plain.

   • [2001, M. Cristina Zaccarini, The Sino-American Friendship as Tradition and Challenge: Dr. Ailie Gale in China, 1908–1950‎^[3], Lehigh University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 97:

     Thus, it was only with the help of supporters that Gale was able to take postgraduate medical courses at Columbia Medical College, and prepare for the new mission field in Tunki Anhwei.]

   • 2011 October 28, Justin Bergman, “In Anhui, China, Centuries-Old Charm”, in The New York Times‎^[4], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2017-05-01, TRAVEL‎^[5]:

     Round-trip flights between Shanghai and Huangshan City (also known as Tunxi) start at 580 renminbi (about $93) […]

   • [2016, Bill Porter, “Huangshan & Chiuhuashan [黃山 九花山]”, in South of the Yangtze: Travels Through the Heart of China‎^[6], Counterpoint Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 139:

     An hour later, we said hello to Tunhsi. Tunhsi is the gateway to Huangshan, China’s most spectacular mountain.]

Translations

district of Huangshan, Anhui, China

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 屯溪 (zh) (Túnxī)

Further reading

• Tunxi, T'un-hsi, Tunhsi at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.