Qin'an

English

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 秦安 (Qín'ān).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃɪnˈɑn/, /-æn/

Proper noun

Qin'an

1. A county of Tianshui, Gansu, in northwestern China.
   • [1972, Hsin-wen Lan, “Finds from Kansu”, in 中国新出土文物 [New Archaeological Finds in China: Discoveries During the Cultural Revolution]‎^[1], Peking: Foreign Languages Press, →OCLC, page 30:

     In 1967, 17 bronzes of the Chin Dynasty¹ (221-207 B.C.) were excavated at Shangyuanchia, Chinan County.]

   • 1998, “Li Te [李特]”, in Great Perfection: Religion and Ethnicity in a Chinese Millennial Kingdom [大成]‎^[2], Honolulu: University of Hawaiʻi Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 117:

     Linwei, eighty li southeast of Qin’an county in Gansu, was the administrative center of Lueyang commandery (Dushi fangyu jiyao 59/2596; Zang 1936:849.1, 1293.1).

   • [2008, “Northwest China”, in Chen Xuejian, editor, Travel Around China‎^[3], HarperCollins, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 263, column 3:

     Dadiwan Site is located in the gentle hillsides on the south bank of Qingshui River in Qinan County, Tianshui City. The earliest site dates from 7,800 years ago, and the most recent site dates from 4,800 years ago.]

Translations

county

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 秦安 (zh) (Qín'ān)

Further reading

• Qin'an, Ch'in-an, Chin-an, Chinan at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.
• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Qin'an”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[4], volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 2546, column 2