Nujiang

English

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Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 怒江 (Nùjiāng).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈnuːˈd͡ʒiæŋ/, enPR: no͞oʹjyängʹ[1]

Proper noun

Nujiang

  1. A Lisu autonomous prefecture in Yunnan, China.
    • 2003, Noel Grove, Earth's Last Great Places: Exploring the Nature Conservancy Worldwide‎[2], →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 173:
      On the side of a commercial van in the city, I saw the logo “Shangri-la Tours” written in English. Miffed by Lijiang's presumption, the Nujiang prefecture along the Salween River appointed a committee of academicians to study the origins of the Shangri-la myth, to see if they might claim it instead.
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Nujiang.
  2. (with the) Nu River (the upper reaches of the Salween River in China).

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References

  1. ^ cf. Leon E. Seltzer, editor (1952), “Salween River”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World‎[1], Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 1655, column 3

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