Qianyang

English

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 千陽／千阳 (Qiānyáng)／汧陽／汧阳.

Proper noun

Qianyang

1. A county of Baoji, Shaanxi, China.
   • [1971 August 20 [1971 August 14], “Shensi Water Conservancy”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China, volume I, number 162, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Sian Shensi Provincial Service, translation of original in Mandarin, →ISSN, →OCLC, People's Republic of China: Northwest Region, page H 4:

     Chienyang County, Shensi, has since last winter completed more than 50 water conservancy projects, including 14 reservoirs, increasing its irrigated area by over 65,000 mou.]

   • [1972, Chao Feng-nien, “Learning from Tachai Brings Big Changes”, in Tachai: Standard Bearer in China's Agriculture [大寨——中国农业战綫上的一面紅旗]‎^[1], 1st edition, Peking: Foreign Languages Press, →OCLC, page 28:

     Chienyang County in Shensi Province on the loess highland has fairly rich water resources, but there was little irrigated land — averaging 0.4 mu per person — before the Cultural Revolution owing to interference and sabotage by Liu Shao-chi’s counter-revolutionary revisionist line.]

   • 1983, Rongzhao Mei, “The Decimal Place-Value Numeration and the Rod and Bead Arithmetics”, in 中国古代科技成就 [Ancient China's Technology and Science] (China Knowledge Series)‎^[2], Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, pages 58–59:

     In recent archaeological excavations a number of ancient counting-rods have been unearthed. More than 30 rods were found in August 1971 in Qianyang County of Shaanxi Province.

Translations

county

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 千陽／千阳 (zh) (Qiānyáng), 汧陽／汧阳

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can

Further reading

• Qianyang, Ch'ien-yang, Chien-yang, Chienyang at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.
• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Qianyang”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[3], volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 2546, column 1