Menyuan
English
Etymology
From the Mandarin 門源 / 门源 (Ményuán).
Proper noun
Menyuan
- A Hui autonomous county in Haibei, Qinghai, China.
- 1968 August 8 [1968 August 6], “Menyuan Hui Calls Agricultural Conference”, in Daily Report: Communist China, volume I, number 155, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Sining Tsinghai Provincial Service, translation of original in Mandarin, →OCLC, Communist China: Northwest Region, page H 1:
- The revolutionary committee of the Menyuan Hui Autonomous County recently called a conference to stir up an upsurge in agricultural mechanization throughout the country.
- [2009, Ari Daniel Levine, “The Reigns of Hui-tsung (1100-1126) and Ch’in-tsung (1126-1127) and the Fall of the Northern Sung”, in The Cambridge History of Ancient China, volume 5, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 621:
- Jen-to-ch’üan roughly corresponds to the seat of modern Men-yüan county in Tsinghai province.]
- 2016 January 20, Dean Yates, “Magnitude 6.1 earthquake hits central China, no reports of casualties”, in John Stonestreet, Toni Reinhold, editors, Reuters[1], archived from the original on 24 January 2016, Green Business[2]:
- China's official Xinhua news agency said there were no immediate reports of casualties from the tremor, which struck at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) in Menyuan county in Qinghai province.
Phone services in Menyuan, home to around 150,000 people, were operating normally, it said.
Translations
Hui autonomous county
Further reading
- Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Menyuan”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World[3], volume 2, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1952, column 2