Wanquan

See also: wánquán and wànquán

English

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 萬全 / 万全 (Wànquán).

Pronunciation

• enPR: wänʹchüǎnʹ

Proper noun

Wanquan

1. A district of Zhangjiakou, Hebei, China, formerly a county.
   • 1997, Wenyuan Liu, “Cultural Relics of Great Wall”, in Tales of the Great Wall [长城的故事]‎^[2], Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, pages 78–79:

     According to the paintings, the tomb’s owner had been an unimportant official attending the emperor; previously, he had been a Duwei (officer in charge of a prefecture’s troops), Changshi (assistant prefect) and magistrate. His highest rank was Shishijie Huwuhuan Xiaowei (an official in charge of the affairs of Wuhuan, Xianbei and other nationalities living along the Great Wall). His office was situated in Ningcheng, or today’s Wanquan County, Hebei Province.

   • 2005, Thomas David DuBois, The Sacred Village: Social Change and Religious Life in Rural North China‎^[3], Honolulu: University of Hawaiʻi Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 49:

     In his surveys of northern Hebei, Willem Grootaers found an average of 6.8 temples per village in Wanquan County and 4.5 per village in neighboring Xuanhua.

   • 2011 November 4, Dongya Zhang, “Sexual struggle in the countryside”, in Beijing Today‎^[4], number 543, →OCLC, page 19:

     Gujiagou is a small hamlet in Wanquan County in Zhangjiakou, Hebei Province. Hao, born in the village in 1981, lived there until he was admitted to the Beijing Film Academy in 2001.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Wanquan.

Translations

district

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 萬全 / 万全 (zh) (Wànquán)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can
• Manchu: ᠸᠠᠨ
  ᠴᡳᠣᠸᠠᠨ (wan ciowan)

Further reading

• Wanquan, Wan-ch'uan, Wan-chuan, Wanchuan at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.