Guangyuan

See also: guāngyuán

English

Alternative forms

• Kuang-yüan (Wade–Giles)

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 廣元／广元 (Guǎngyuán).

Proper noun

Guangyuan

1. A prefecture-level city in Sichuan, China.
   • [1980, Eric O. Hanson, “Confrontation at the National Level: Relations between the People's Republic of China and the Catholic Church, 1949-1962”, in Catholic Politics in China and Korea (American Society of Missiology Series)‎^[1], Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 66:

     The People’s Republic began its campaign to separate the Chinese church from Rome on November 30, 1950. The national Catholic Three Self Movement started in Kuangyuan, a town of northern Szechwan.]

   • 2008 May 16, William J. Broad, “Western Experts Monitor China’s Nuclear Sites for Signs of Earthquake Damage”, in The New York Times‎^[2], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 11 December 2008, Asia Pacific‎^[3]:

     China’s main complex for making nuclear warhead fuel, codenamed Plant 821, is beside a river in a hilly, forested part of the earthquake zone. It is some 15 miles northwest of Guangyuan in Sichuan Province.

   • 2008 May 25, “Deadly aftershock jolts China”, in France 24‎^[4], archived from the original on May 24, 2024‎^[5]:

     State television quoted an earthquake relief official in the city of Guangyuan, north of the provincial capital Chengdu, as saying the aftershock caused at least one death and 262 injuries in that city.
     The official, Wang Fei, also said several thousand homes in Guangyuan were believed destroyed by the aftershock, but he noted that many were already badly damaged.

Translations

prefecture-level city in China

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 廣元／广元 (zh) (Guǎngyuán)

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (2008), “Guangyuan”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[6], 2nd edition, volume 1, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1455, column 3