Yichun

See also: Yīchūn and yǐchún

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: yēʹcho͝onʹ

Etymology 1

From Mandarin 伊春 (Yīchūn).

Proper noun

Yichun

1. A prefecture-level city in Heilongjiang, China.
   • 2011 July 16, Henry Sanderson, Michael Forsythe, “In China, loans lure city officials”, in The Washington Post‎^[2], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 03 December 2023, Business‎^[3]:

     That’s the case in Yichun, a Maryland-sized area of about 1.3 million people deep inside the birch and pine forest on China’s border with Russia.
     Yichun is a poor city in a poor province. The income of its residents was little more than half the national average last year. That hasn’t stopped the government from going on a spending spree. The new local police headquarters has a miniature dome reminiscent of that of St. Peter’s Basilica in Vatican City.

   • 2019 February 26, Tiffany May, “Young People Left Behind in China’s Snowbound Rust Belt”, in The New York Times‎^[4], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2019-02-26, Lens‎^[5]:

     He was in Yichun, a faded boomtown in northeastern China, where in December, 2016 he began photographing young people whose isolation he recognized in his own life.

Translations

prefecture-level city

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 伊春 (zh) (Yīchūn)

Etymology 2

From Mandarin 宜春 (Yíchūn).

Proper noun

Yichun

1. A prefecture-level city in Jiangxi, China.
   • 1964, Yu-ti (任育地) Jen, 中国地理概述 [A Concise Geography of China]‎^[6], Peking: Foreign Languages Press, →OCLC, page 133:

     Yichun and Wantsai produce grass-linen, another distinctive handicraft product.

Translations

prefecture-level city

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 宜春 (zh) (Yíchūn)

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Yichun”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[7], volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 3528, column 1