Yunmeng

See also: Yün-meng

English

Alternative forms

• Yün-meng, Yun-meng (Wade–Giles)

Etymology

From Mandarin 雲夢／云梦 (Yúnmèng).

Proper noun

Yunmeng

1. A county of Xiaogan, Hubei, China.
   • 1943 June 8, “Jap Remnants Suffer Heavy Casualties: Alerts In Chungking”, in The Bombay Chronicle‎^[1], volume XXXI, number 134, page 1:

     On the opposite bank of the river other Chinese units attacked Taoshih and Yunmeng north-west of Hankow.

   • 1976, “Oldest 'Law Book'”, in Eastern Horizon‎^[2], volume XV, number 2, Hong Kong: Eastern Horizon Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 69:

     Some 1,000 bamboo slips, most of them recording laws and documents dating back about 2,200 years, were found in one of the 12 tombs recently excavated in Yunmeng county, Hupeh province, in Central China. They date from the late years of the Warring States period (475 BC-221 BC) to the Chin dynasty (221 BC-207 BC).

   • 1987 October 4, Jonathan Spence, “Father of His Country”, in The New York Times‎^[3], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2015-05-25, Section 7, page 1‎^[4]:

     Most important of these latter - though the millions of Chinese and foreign tourists who have gazed in awe at Qin Shihuang's terra cotta army buried near his tomb may find it hard to agree - are the legal and bureaucratic documents dating to around 217 B.C. unearthed by Chinese archeologists during 1975 at tomb number 11 in Yunmeng County of what is now Hubei Province.

   • 2020 March 10, Nsikan Akpan, “These underlying conditions make coronavirus more severe, and they're surprisingly common”, in National Geographic‎^[5], archived from the original on 12 March 2020:

     Doctors look at a lung CT image in a hospital in Yunmeng County, Xiaogan City, in China's central Hubei Province.

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

Translations

county in central China

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 雲夢／云梦 (zh) (Yúnmèng)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Yunmeng”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[6], volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 3541, column 1