Yichuan

See also: yíchuán

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: yēʹchwänʹ

Etymology 1

From Mandarin 宜川 (Yíchuān).

Proper noun

Yichuan

1. A county of Yan'an, Shaanxi, China.
   • 2007, Patricia M. Thornton, Disciplining the State: Virtue, Violence, and State-Making in Modern China‎^[2], →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 37:

     Military expenses were frequently at the root of such deficits. One early investigation of arrears in Shaanxi’s Yichuan county is typical. An audit of the Yichuan granary revealed a shortage of nearly 3,000 piculs (dan) of grain.

   • 2021 July 5, Muyu Xu, Shivani Singh, “China approves a $55 mln gas pipeline in northern China”, in Louise Heavens, editor, Reuters‎^[3], archived from the original on 05 July 2021, Energy‎^[4]:

     The 34.2 kilometre (21.3 mile) pipeline, which will be built by Qinjin Natural Gas Co, is designed to have annual gas transmission capacity of 3.3 billion cubic metres and connect Ji county in Shanxi and Yichuan county in Shaanxi.

Translations

county

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 宜川 (zh) (Yíchuān)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can

Etymology 2

From Mandarin 伊川 (Yīchuān).

Proper noun

Yichuan

1. A county of Luoyang, Henan, China.
   • 2019 October 29, Cheng Leng, Ryan Woo, “Rural Chinese bank seeks to assure depositors”, in Ed Osmond, editor, Reuters‎^[5], archived from the original on 2023-05-21, Banking and Financial News‎^[6]:

     A rural lender based in China’s central Henan province sought to assure depositors of its financial health after a high volume of over-the-counter requests at some of its branches on Tuesday, amid concerns of liquidity issues at smaller Chinese lenders.
     As a result, operation at those branches was slower than usual, Yichuan Rural Commercial Bank, which has 33 branches operating only in Henan’s Yichuan county, said in a notice posted on its official WeChat account.

Translations

county

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 伊川 (zh) (Yīchuān)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Yichuan”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[7], volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 3527, column 3