Yilan

See also: yılan and yīlǎn

English

Alternative forms

• Ilan, I-lan (Wade–Giles)

Pronunciation

• enPR: yēʹlänʹ

Etymology 1

From Mandarin 宜蘭 (Yílán).

Proper noun

Yilan

1. A county of Taiwan.
   • [1880 February 20, “Tamsui Trade Report for the Year 1879”, in Reports on Trade at the Treaty Ports for the Year 1879‎^[2], Shanghai, page 181:

     Those who know Formosa will have heard of a large rice-producing place called Kapsulan. This place, known officially as Komalan-t'ing was changed in January 1878 into Yilan-hsien (宜蘭縣), by which name it is now known.]

   • 1977 August 14, “Petroleum corporation stepping up search for oil and gas on Taiwan”, in Free China Weekly‎^[3], volume XVIII, number 32, Taipei, page 4:

     Wu, concurrently manager of the Taiwan Petroleum Exploration Division of CPC, said his division has conducted geographical surveys in Taipei, Tainan, and Yilan Counties, covering an area of 497 square kilometers.
     Seismic surveys of costal areas covering 604 square kilometers also have been conducted, as well as a gravity survey of coastal areas in Yilan.

   • 1998, Wang Ke-wen, editor, Modern China: An Encyclopedia of History, Culture, and Nationalism‎^[4], New York & London: Garland Publishing, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 98:

     In December 1971, the ROC government included the Diaoyutai Islets in the administrative district of Yilan county of Taiwan province.

   • 2015 September 28, Angela Fritz, “Watch Typhoon Dujuan roar ashore in Taiwan with violent 140 mph winds”, in The Washington Post‎^[5], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2016-02-01, CAPITAL WEATHER GANG‎^[6]:

     Taiwan’s Yilan County in the northeast was hit the hardest by Dujuan’s strongest winds on the right side of the eye.

   • 2018 October 22, Chris Horton, “8 Members of Family Killed in Taiwan’s Worst Rail Crash in Decades”, in The New York Times‎^[7], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2018-10-22, Asia Pacific‎^[8]:

     On Monday morning, the Taiwan Railways Administration released a 12-second video of the moment the Puyuma Express train derailed in northeast Taiwan’s Yilan County. The train was carrying 366 passengers. […]
     Taiwan’s president, Tsai Ing-wen, and its premier, Lai Ching-te, both visited Yilan County after the accident.

2. A city in Yilan County, Taiwan.
   • 1954, George W. Barclay, A Report on Taiwan's Population to the Joint Commission on Rural Reconstruction‎^[9], Princeton, N.J., page 66:

     From 1920 to 1940, the Taiwanese population of the nine major cities (excluding Hualien and Yilan¹³) increased from 365 thousand to 808 thousand.

   • 2021 November 22, Shelley Shan, “MOTC might soon decide Yilan HSR station’s location”, in Taipei Times‎^[10], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 21 November 2021, Taiwan News, page 3‎^[11]:

     At an information session on Wednesday, the ministry suggested a fifth possible location in Yilan City, which is 350m south of the Yilan County Hall, Wang said.

Synonyms

• (abbreviation) ILA

Translations

county in Taiwan; city in Taiwan

• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 宜蘭／宜兰 (ji⁴ laan⁴)

  Hokkien: 宜蘭／宜兰 (Gî-lân)

  Mandarin: 宜蘭／宜兰 (zh) (Yílán)

• Japanese: 宜蘭 (ぎらん, Giran)

Etymology 2

From Mandarin 依蘭／依兰 (Yīlán).

Proper noun

Yilan

1. A county of Harbin, Heilongjiang, China.
   • [1977 December, “Victory Over the Fourth 'Encirclement and Suppression Campaigns'”, in Eastern Horizon‎^[12], volume XVI, number 12, Hong Kong: Eastern Horizon Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 39:

     Tens of thousands of peasants in Tulungshan of Ilan county started large-scale riots, and within ten days killed or injured three thousand Japanese soldiers together with their commanders.]

   • 1980 [1936], Il-sung Kim, “To Hasten the Liberation of the Country”, in Kim Il Sung Works‎^[13], volume 48, Pyongyang: Foreign Languages Publishing House, →OCLC, page 271:

     When we left Mihunzhen, our company comprised less than twenty people. Two young orderlies, ten guards including O Paek Ryong, Kim San Ho and the old man “tobacco pipe”, who had followed us and in so doing had given up teaching at a village school in the secluded land of Helong. These were all members of my company. One company from the Wangqing Regiment, who had followed us from Guandi, left us towards Yilan County to join some units in north Manchuria.

   • 2014 December 1, Edward Wong, “Teachers’ Strikes Spread Across Northeast China”, in The New York Times‎^[14], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2015-01-16, Asia Pacific‎^[15]:

     The strikes began last week and have spread to a half-dozen cities or counties near Harbin, the capital of Heilongjiang Province, where economic growth has long been slower than elsewhere in China. […]
     A one-minute video posted online showed a group of banner-waving people in the snow in front of the county government offices in Yilan. “Give me back my salary, give me back my dignity,” the people shouted in unison. A report by Global Times, a state-run newspaper, said teachers in Yilan County held up a banner that said: “We are 4,000 Yilan teachers. Return my withheld money!”
     In China, teaching has long been a profession with relatively low pay. Teachers from Yilan had posted a letter online that said educators who have worked for 20 years make just over $320 per month, and new teachers make $160 — “even more pathetic,” according to the letter.

Translations

county

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 依蘭／依兰 (zh) (Yīlán)

• Manchu: ᡳᠯᠠᠨ
  ᡥᠠᠯᠠ (ilan hala), ᡳᠯᠠᠨ (ilan)

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Yilan”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[16], volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 3528, column 1

Further reading

• Yilan, Yi-lan, I-lan at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.

Anagrams

• IANYL, inlay, lay in, lay-in, layin, layin', naily