Changyuan

See also: Chángyuán and chángyuǎn

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Etymology

From Mandarin 長垣 / 长垣 (Chángyuán).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /(ˈ)t͡ʃæŋˈwɑn/, /(ˈ)t͡ʃɑŋ-/, enPR: chängʹyüǎnʹ^[1]

Proper noun

Changyuan

1. A county-level city of Xinxiang, Henan, China.
   • [1947 December 16, “Christmas Greeting to Friends”, in The Mennonite, volume 62, number 49, page 27, column 1:

     Happily, Tung Ming Hsien is south of the Yellow River. Here the work of the church and school proceeds normally. The General Committee also has a group of eight preachers out in the remote country places of the Tung Ming counties and the southern end of the Ch’ang Yuan county, which lies south of the Yellow River.]

   • 1976 May 5 [1976 May 4], “Chengchow, Honan Honors Man Slain in Riot”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China, volume I, number 88, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Chengchow Honan Provincial Service, translation of original in Mandarin, →OCLC, Central-South Region, page H 1; republished as Summary of World Broadcasts: Far East‎^[2], 1976, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 14:

     Comrade Chiao Chun-liang was an operator in Chengchow Municipal Telecommunications Bureau. He was a native of Changyuan County, Honan, and was born in the family of a lower-middle peasant in the spring of 1936.

   • 2007 April 7, “Want a promotion? Treat mum well says China county”, in Reuters‎^[3], archived from the original on 02 April 2023, Oddly Enough‎^[4]:

     A county in central China plans in-depth checks on how its officials’ treat their parents, with those who are nice to their mum and dad first in line for promotion, Xinhua news agency reported on Saturday.
     Up to 500 family members, friends, colleagues and neighbours will be grilled by special investigators about the behaviour of each official from Changyuan county, including their family values and any drinking or gambling habits, the report said.

Translations

county-level city

Chinese: Cantonese: 長垣 / 长垣 (coeng4 wun4) Mandarin: 長垣 / 长垣 (zh) (Chángyuán) Japanese: please add this translation if you can

References

1. ^ Leon E. Seltzer, editor (1952), “Changyüan or Ch’ang-yüan”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World‎^[1], Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 370, column 3

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (2008), “Changyuan”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[5], 2nd edition, volume 1, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 726, column 3

Anagrams

• Yang-ch'üan, Yangchüan