Yuan River

English

Etymology 1

Partial calque of Mandarin 沅江 (Yuán Jiāng).

Proper noun

Yuan River

1. A river in Hunan, China
   • 1898 September, W. R. Carles, “THE YANGTSE CHIANG”, in The Geographical Journal‎^[1], volume XII, number 3, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 236:

     It is said at Hankau that boats can travel up stream 4000 li by three different routes—the Yangtse Chiang, the Yuan river in Hu Nan, and the Han river.

   • 1944 January 3 [1943 December 29], Brooks Atkinson, “MANY ATROCITIES LISTED BY CHINESE; Barbarity of Japanese Held to Be Psychopathic Compensation for Lack of Charm”, in The New York Times‎^[2], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2 December 2023, page 3‎^[3]:

     Now that the Japanese menace has been removed, at least temporarily, refugee farmers and artisans are drifting back to their homes in Hunan, south of the Yuan River. On the long hard trek from Taoyuan our party of military attaches and correspondents met them on hard lumpy paths, crossing winter paddy fields.

   • 1954, Herold J. Wiens, “The history of South Chinese tribal movements and migrations”, in Han Chinese Expansion in South China‎^[4], Shoe String Press, published 1967, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 88:

     General Fu Yu-te commanded an army of 100,000 which assembled in Hu-kuang Province (Hu-pei and Hu-nan area). Aside from a part of his army which he dispatched post-haste to Wu-san (present-day Wei-ning in western Kuei-chou)(See Photos 7 and 8), he personally led the main body. He entered Kuei-chou from Hu-nan along the Yuan River route.

Synonyms

• Yuan Jiang, Yuanjiang

Translations

river

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 沅江 (zh) (Yuán Jiāng)

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Yuan River”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[5], volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 3536, column 2

Etymology 2

Partial calque of Mandarin 元江 (Yuán Jiāng).

Proper noun

Yuan River

1. The Chinese stretch of the Red River, prior to its crossing the Vietnamese border
   • 2021 August 9, David Stanway, “China's wild elephants head to safety after long trek”, in Reuters‎^[6], archived from the original on 10 August 2021‎^[7]:

     Wildlife protection officials told a press briefing the elephants safely crossed a bridge over the Yuan River, returning south towards a nature reserve administered by the city of Puer.