Jinchang

See also: jìncháng and jìnchǎng

English

Map including JINCHANG (DMA, 1989)

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 金昌 (Jīnchāng).

Pronunciation

• (anglicized) IPA^(key): /d͡ʒɪnˈt͡ʃæŋ/, (emulating Chinese) /d͡ʒinˈt͡ʃɑŋ/

Proper noun

Jinchang

1. A prefecture-level city in Gansu, in northwestern China.
   • 2007, Rob Gifford, China Road: One Man's Journey into the Heart of Modern China‎^[1], Bloomsbury, published 2008, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 195:

     When we reach Jinchang, another forlorn desert town, I change buses for another two-hour ride to the town of Yongchang, a few miles from a village where I’ve heard that locals make some extraordinary claims about their ancestry.

   • 2021 June 4, “Train strikes, kills 9 workers on track in northwest China”, in AP News‎^[2], archived from the original on 04 June 2021‎^[3]:

     It happened at 5:18 a.m. as the train negotiated a curve in the city of Jinchang in Gansu province about 1,200 kilometers (750 miles) west of Beijing.

   • 2023 February 4 [2023 January], “Building a Beautiful Home”, in All-China Women's Federation‎^[4], archived from the original on 08 March 2023, Women in Action‎^[5]:

     In Jinchuan District and Lanzhou New District, both in Jinchang, the supermarkets provide "shared products" to residents, where residents can borrow ladders or other tools as needed.

Translations

a prefecture-level city in north-western China

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 金昌 (zh) (Jīnchāng)

• Manchu: ᡤᡳᠨ
  ᠴᠠᠩ (gin cang)

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Jinchang”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[6], volume 2, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1450, column 1