Yinchuan

See also: Yínchuān, Yin-ch'uan, and Yin Chuan

English

Alternative forms

• Yinchwan (Postal Romanization)
• Yin-ch'uan (also from Wade–Giles)
• Yin Chuan (also from Hanyu Pinyin)

Etymology

Likely c. 1940s, from Mandarin 銀川／银川 (Yínchuān), Wade–Giles romanization: Yin²-chʻuan¹, reinforced by Hanyu Pinyin.

Pronunciation

• enPR: yǐnʹchwänʹ

Proper noun

Yinchuan

1. The capital city of the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, China [from 20th c.]
   • 1949 September 26 [1949 September 25], “NATIONALISTS REVOLT”, in The Bombay Chronicle‎^[2], volume XXXVII, number 228, Bombay, →OCLC, Stop Press, page 5, column 1:

     Peiping radio claimed tonight that Communists occupied Yinchuan, capital of Ninghsia Province in Central China two days ago.

   • 1954 February [1954 January], “China's Industrial Growth”, in Economic Digest‎^[3], volume VII, number 2, London: Economic Research Council, →OCLC, pages 87–88:

     All the bigger towns in this vast area are to have new power stations. Yinchuan and Bayenhot in Ningsia province, Sining in Chinghai, Tienshui, Tunhchuan and Paochi in Shensi, and Tihua in Sinkiang have all been mentioned in Press reports.
     At Yinchuan factories for machinery, woollen textiles and chemicals have been started, and two new textile mills are planned in the cotton-growing district of Kuanchung, in Shensi.

   • 1956 October, Grace Liu, “A Train Trip in China”, in New World Review‎^[4], volume 24, number 10, New York: S.R.T. Publications, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 20, column 1:

     On the trip out our car was full of railway workers, going out to work on the Lanchow-Sinkiang Railway which had already reached Yumen, China’s biggest oil field, and in 1960 will connect with the Soviet Union’s Turkestan-Siberia Railway; or to the Lanchow-Yinchuan section, which cuts through the Great Wall to reach Yinchuan, a major wool, hide and skin trading center in the Northwest.

   • 1964, 任育地 [Jen Yu-ti], 中国地理概述 [A Concise Geography of China]‎^[5], Peking: Foreign Languages Press, →OCLC, page 201:

     Yinchuan, capital of the Ningsia Hui Autonomous Region, lies in the centre of the Ningsia Plain.

   • 2016 August 26, Javier A. Hernández, “Ai Weiwei Planned to Sculpt a ‘Redline.’ Chinese Censors Say He Crossed One.”, in The New York Times‎^[6], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2016-08-26, Sinosphere‎^[7]:

     Mr. Ai had become obsessed with a red scribble that appeared on a planning document for an art show next month in Yinchuan, a city in northwest China. He decided to build a large sculpture modeled on the line that he would call “Redline” — a playful rumination on the idea of censorship.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Yinchuan.

Translations

capital city of Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region in China

• Arabic: ينتشوان m (yinchwān), إينتشوان m (ʔinchwān)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 銀川／银川 (ngan⁴ cyun¹)

  Mandarin: 銀川／银川 (zh) (Yínchuān)

• Hungarian: Jincsuan (hu)
• Japanese: 銀川 (ぎんせん, Ginsen)
• Korean: 인촨 (ko) (inchwan)
• Macedonian: Ји́нчуан m (Jínčuan)
• Russian: Иньчуа́нь m (Inʹčuánʹ)
• Vietnamese: Ngân Xuyên
• Zhuang: Yinzconh

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Yinchuan”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[8], volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 3528, column 2
• “Yinchuan”, in Collins English Dictionary.
• Yinchuan, Yin-ch'uan, Yin-chuan, Yinchwan at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.
• “Yinchuan, pn.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “Yinchuan”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• “Yinchuan”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• “Yinchuan” in TheFreeDictionary.com, Huntingdon Valley, Pa.: Farlex, Inc., 2003–2024.