Yü-t'ien

English

Etymology

From the Wade–Giles romanization of the Mandarin 于闐 (Yü²-tʻien²).

Proper noun

Yü-t'ien

  1. Alternative form of Yutian.
    • 1921, Aurel Stein, Serindia‎[1], volume 3, page 1323:
      The Later Han Annals do not mention Chʻü-lê; but in the Wei lio it appears along with Jung-lu, Han-mi, and Pʻi-kʻang as a petty kingdom dependent on Yü-tʻien or Khotan.
    • 1923, The Travels of Fa-Hsien‎[2], Cambridge University Press, →OCLC, →OL, pages 90–91:
      Again, Yü-tʻien or Ho-tʻien (Khotan), as it is now called, has been from time immemorial devoted to Mahometanism, as is amply borne out by Illustrated Notices of Western Countries, printed by Imperial authority.
    • 1964, William Samolin, East Turkistan to the Twelfth Century‎[3], The Hague: Mouton & Co, →OCLC, →OL, pages 27, 86:
      During this period the Hsiung-nu were weak and failed to assert their power in the region. The more powerful states, Shan-shan (75) in the Lop region, So-ch’e (76) (Yarqand) and Yü-t’ien (77) (Khotan) had begun to absorb their lesser neighbors.
      (75) 鄯善
      (76) 莎車
      (77) 于寘
    • 1966 [1637], Ying-Hsing Sung, translated by E-Tu Zen Sun and Shiou-Chuan Sun, Chinese Technology in the Seventeenth Century: T'ien-kung K'ai-wu‎[4], Mineola, NY: Dover Publications, published 1997, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 309, 356:
      Yü-t’ien is a state located in an area known as Ho-t’ien since the eighteenth century (not to be confused with the Yü-t’ien District set up in late nineteenth century some 150 kilometers to the east). Ho-t’ien is situated in southwestern Sinkiang just below the northern foothills of the Karakorem Range and near the upper reaches of a water course, the Ho-t’ien or South Ts’ung-ling River. To the west is the Kashgar or North Ts’ung-ling River. The two join the Yerkand River and form the Tarim River system in south-central Sinkiang. These rivers have their headwaters in the Ts’ung-ling range, which is the general term for the eastern part of the Pamir Heights. The White-Jade River and the Green-Jade River, as mentioned in the present book, are probably the Ho-t’ien and the Kashgar.
      Yü-t’ien, known as Ho-t’ien in Sinkiang Province 于闐（和闐）
    • 1979, A. F. P. Hulsewé, “Translation of Han shu ch. 96A”, in China in Central Asia: The Early Stage: 125 B.C.-A.D. 23‎[5], Leiden: E.J. Brill, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 96:
      Yü-t’ien 于闐, GSR 97a and 375r: giwo/jiu-d'ien/d'ien, later called Ho-t’ien 和闐, GSR 8e and 375r: g'wa/yua-d'ien/d'ien, since long identified with Khotan. It is to be noted that late in the 19th century a subprefecture with the identical name Yü-t’ien was established in Keriya; this figures i.a. on map A12, square D4 of the Atlas (1962).
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Yü-t'ien.

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