Jiamusi

See also: Jiāmùsī

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin[1] romanization of Mandarin 佳木斯 (Jiāmùsī)

Pronunciation

  • enPR: jyäʹmo͞oʹsûʹ[2]
  • enPR: jē-äʹmo͞oʹso͝oʹ[3]

Proper noun

Jiamusi

  1. A prefecture-level city of Heilongjiang, China.
    • [1950 September 18, “Fourth Report of the United Nations Command Operations in Korea, for the Period August 16-31, 1950”, in The Encyclopedia of the Korean War: A Political, Social, and Military History‎[4], volume III, ABC-CLIO, published 2010, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1206, column 2:
      Approximately 140,000 Korean troops have participated in training and combat action with the Chinese Communist forces in one of three categories: (a) the Korean Volunteer Army, which was formed from Koreans in Communist-held China and Manchuria during 1945-46; (b) USSR-trained Koreans, who were transferred from north Korea and were integrated into the Korean Volunteer Army or Chinese Communist Army to gain combat experience; and (c) USSR-trained Koreans, who participated in training at Chiamussu, Manchuria, or attended the officer’s candidate school at Lungchingtsun, Manchuria.]
    • 2013 October 24, “2 dead, 62 injured in China train collisions”, in AP News‎[5], archived from the original on 10 March 2023‎[6]:
      In northeastern China, a passenger train collided with a coal-loaded truck early Thursday, killing the train driver and injuring 10 people, the official Xinhua News Agency said. The incident happened at a railway crossing in Jiamusi city in Heilongjiang province.

Translations

References

  1. ^ “Selected Glossary”, in The Cambridge Encyclopedia of China‎[1], Cambridge University Press, 1982, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 476:
    The glossary includes a selection of names and terms from the text in the Wade-Giles transliteration, followed by Pinyin, […]
    Chia-mu-ssu (Jiamusi) 佳木斯
  2. ^ Leon E. Seltzer, editor (1952), “Kiamusze or Chia-mu-ssu”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World‎[2], Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 941, column 3
  3. ^ “Chia-mu-ssu or Kia·mu·sze”, in The International Geographic Encyclopedia and Atlas‎[3], Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1979, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 152, column 2

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