Yongchuan

English

Alternative forms

• Yungchuan

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 永川 (Yǒngchuān).

Pronunciation

• enPR: yo͝ongʹchwänʹ

Proper noun

Yongchuan

1. A district of Chongqing, China.
   • 1992, Jerome Ch'en, The Highlanders of Central China: A History, 1895-1937‎^[2], M. E. Sharpe, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 114:

     I remember on a summer’s day in 1934 when father told me of his personal experiences as the magistrate of Yongchuan, a county west of Chongqing, in 1917.

   • 2022 August 6, Chris Buckley, Steven Lee Myers, Amy Chang Chien, “In Turbulent Times, Xi Builds a Security Fortress for China, and Himself”, in The New York Times‎^[3], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-08-06, ASIA PACIFIC‎^[4]:

     “Don’t simplistically equate ‘nothing has gone wrong’ with ‘nothing will go wrong,’” the local security committee of Yongchuan District in southwest China said last year. “At every moment always act as if we’re walking on thin ice, as if on the edge of an abyss.”

Translations

district

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 永川 (zh) (Yǒngchuān)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Yongchuan”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[5], volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 3531, column 2