Sanmenxia
English
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editEtymology
editFrom the Hanyu Pinyin[1] romanization of the Mandarin 三門峽/三门峡 (Sānménxiá).
Proper noun
editSanmenxia
- A prefecture-level city in Henan, China.
- 2013 February 1, “China highway collapse”, in Deutsche Welle[2], archived from the original on February 02, 2024[3]:
- Several vehicles were reported to have fallen from the elevated section of the highway after a truck laden with fireworks exploded, severely damaging a roughly 80-meter (262-foot) section of the road.
The incident occurred near the city of Sanmenxia, to the east of Xi'an, in the inland, eastern province of Henan.
- 2019 April 14, Paul Mozur, “One Month, 500,000 Face Scans: How China Is Using A.I. to Profile a Minority”, in The New York Times[4], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2019-04-14, Technology[5]:
- Law enforcement in the central Chinese city of Sanmenxia, along the Yellow River, ran a system that over the course of a month this year screened whether residents were Uighurs 500,000 times.
Translations
editprefecture-level city
References
edit- ^ Shabad, Theodore (1972) “Index”, in China's Changing Map[1], New York: Frederick A. Praeger, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 345, 361:
- Chinese place names are listed in three common spelling styles: […] (1) the Post Office system, […] (2) the Wade-Giles system, […] shown after the main entry […] (3) the Chinese Communists' own Pinyin romanization system, which also appears in parentheses […] Sanmensia (San-men-hsia, Sanmenxia)
Further reading
edit- Sanmenxia, San-men-hsia, Sanmenhsia at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.
- Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Sanmenxia”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World[6], volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 2785, column 3
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