Yalong

English

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 雅礱／雅砻.

Proper noun

Yalong

1. A river in Sichuan, China.
   • [1832 June, Le Ming-che Tsing-lae, “Ta Tsing Wan-neen Yih-tung King-wei Yu-too,—"A general geographical map, with degrees of latitude and longitude, of the Empire of the Ta-tsing Dynasty—may it last for ever."”, in The Chinese Repository‎^[1], volume I, number 2, Canton, →OCLC, page 38:

     Even among the tributaries of the two great rivers of China, many rivers may be found of considerable length, and some scarcely inferior to the largest rivers of Europe. At the head of these are the Han-shwuy, which, rising in the mountains between Shense and Kansuh, empties itself into the Yang-tsze-keang at Han-yang-Foo, in Hoopih,—and the Ya-lung-keang, which rises in Kokonor, and after running for some time nearly parallel with the Yang-tsze-keang, empties itself into that river on the borders of Szechuen and Kansuh.]

   • [1833 [1832 June], Le Mingche Tsinglae, “Ta Tsing Wan-neën Yih-tung King-wei Yu-too,—"A general geographical map, with degrees of latitude and longitude, of the Empire of the Ta Tsing Dynasty—may it last for ever."”, in The Chinese Repository‎^[2], 2nd edition, volume I, number 2, Canton, →OCLC, page 38:

     Even among the tributaries of the two great rivers of China, many rivers may be found of cansiderable^{[sic – meaning considerable]} length, and some scarcely inferior to the largest rivers of Europe. At the head of these are the Han-shwuy, which, rising in the mountains between Shense and Kansuh, empties itself into the Yangtsze keäng at Hanyang foo, in Hoopih,—and the Yalung keäng, which rises in Koko-nor, and after running for some time nearly parallel with the Yangtsze keäng, empties itself into that river on the borders of Szechuen and Kansuh.]

   • 2008 April 3, Michael Benanav, “Caught Between a Crackdown and a Tibetan Welcome”, in The New York Times‎^[3], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 06 April 2008, Travel‎^[4]:

     A bridge over the Yalong River in Ganzi County, in Sichuan Province.

   • 2016, Richard Loseby, chapter 10, in A Boy of China‎^[5] (Non-fiction), HarperCollins, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 131:

     I was just a few kilometres outside Garze on the Yalong River, which started its journey on the Qinghai plateau and ended over 1,300 kilometres later when it poured into the Yangtze in the very southernmost corner of Sichuan.

Translations

river

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Yalong”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[6], volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 3510, column 2
• Yalong River, in Encyclopædia Britannica