Anshun

English

Etymology

From Mandarin 安順／安顺 (Ānshùn).

Proper noun

Anshun

1. A prefecture-level city in Guizhou, China.
   • [1989, Nicholas Tapp, “The Religious Dilemma”, in Sovereignty and Rebellion: The White Hmong of Northern Thailand‎^[1], Oxford University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 91:

     In 1904, a group of Miao arrived in the city of Zhaotong seeking a Methodist missionary named Samuel Pollard, to whom they had been directed by a Mr Adam of the China Inland Mission at An-shun, who later translated the New Testament into a romanized version of Hmong.]

   • 2020 July 13, Tiffany May, “Driver Purposely Drove Bus Into China Reservoir, Killing 21, Police Say”, in The New York Times‎^[2], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 13 July 2020‎^[3]:

     The police in Anshun, a city in Guizhou Province, said in a statement on Sunday that the 52-year-old driver, identified only by his last name, Zhang, had been aggrieved over the demolition of his home that morning.

Translations

prefecture-level city

• Chinese:

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  Mandarin: 安順／安顺 (zh) (Ānshùn)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can