Anshun

English

Etymology

From Mandarin 安順 / 安顺 (Ānshùn).

Pronunciation

  • enPR: änʹsho͝onʹ[1]
  • enPR: änʹsho͞onʹ[2]

Proper noun

Anshun

  1. A prefecture-level city of Guizhou, China.
    • [1989, Nicholas Tapp, “The Religious Dilemma”, in Sovereignty and Rebellion: The White Hmong of Northern Thailand‎[3], Oxford University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 91:
      In 1904, a group of Miao arrived in the city of Zhaotong seeking a Methodist missionary named Samuel Pollard, to whom they had been directed by a Mr Adam of the China Inland Mission at An-shun, who later translated the New Testament into a romanized version of Hmong.]
    • 2020 July 13, Tiffany May, “Driver Purposely Drove Bus Into China Reservoir, Killing 21, Police Say”, in The New York Times‎[4], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 13 July 2020‎[5]:
      The police in Anshun, a city in Guizhou Province, said in a statement on Sunday that the 52-year-old driver, identified only by his last name, Zhang, had been aggrieved over the demolition of his home that morning.

Translations

References

  1. ^ Leon E. Seltzer, editor (1952), “Anshun”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World‎[1], Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 77, column 2
  2. ^ “An-shun or An·shun”, in The International Geographic Encyclopedia and Atlas‎[2], Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1979, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 32, column 2
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