Xiangyuan

See also: xiāngyuán, Xiāngyuán, and xiāngyuàn

English

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 襄垣 (Xiāngyuán).

Proper noun

Xiangyuan

1. A county of Changzhi, Shanxi, China.
   • [1976, Sidney L. Greenblatt, editor, The People of Taihang‎^[1], White Plains, NY: International Arts and Sciences Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 168:

     In the spring of 1938 the Japanese imperialists invaded Yü-tz'u and T'ai-ku in Shansi. Everyone was in panic as the flames of war came closer and closer to Hsiang-yüan hsien.]

   • [1983, William Hinton, “Two Dams and a Railroad”, in Shenfan‎^[2], New York: Vintage Books, published 1984, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 226:

     They labored on the railroad embankment, section by section, from West Changchih Station all the way north to Wuyang, the village in Hsiangyuan County that in 1971 served as the northern terminus of the line.]

   • 2022 June 22, Xiaohua Zhang, “Believers Bid Farewell to 97-Y-O Christian Who Was Spiritual Mother of Many”, in China Christian Daily‎^[3], archived from the original on 19 July 2022‎^[4]:

     More than 100 pastors, co-workers and representatives of believers of the Christian Church in Quwo County gathered to bid farewell to the female believer Liu Chang’e who was born on April 17, 1926 in Shizidao Village, Xiangyuan County, Shanxi Province and was called to heaven at 9:35 a.m. on June 9, 2022, at the age of 97.

Translations

county

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 襄垣 (zh) (Xiāngyuán)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Xiangyuan”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[5], volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 3501, column 2
• Xiangyuan, Hsiang-yuan, Hsiangyuan at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.