Jinyuan

See also: jīnyuán

English

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 晉源／晋源.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d͡ʒɪnˈwɑn/

Proper noun

Jinyuan

1. A district of Taiyuan, Shanxi, China.
   • 2012, Standing Their Ground: Thousands Face Violent Eviction in China‎^[1], Amnesty International, →OCLC, page 29:

     In May 2009, the Jinyuan district government issued a document to villagers revealing that 300 homes, including those belonging to Meng Fugui and Wu Wenyuan, would be demolished and setting out a plan for demolition, compensation and relocation.

   • 2017 February 9, Cheyenne Macdonald, Tracy You, “The POTTERY Princess: Researchers find ancient tomb of Chinese General and his wife filled with over 100 tiny figurines - and it could shed light on a little-known Chinese dynasty”, in Daily Mail‎^[2], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 09 February 2017‎^[3]:

     The excavation included archaeologists from the Shanxi Provincial Institute of Archaeology, Shanxi University's School of History and Culture, Taiyuan Municipal Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology, and the Agency of Cultural Relics and Tourism of Jinyuan District, Taiyuan city.

   • 2022 April 21, “Ancient porcelain kiln site discovered in China's Shanxi”, in huaxia, editor, Xinhua News Agency‎^[4], archived from the original on 21 April 2022‎^[5]:

     The kiln site is located in an ancient town site in Jinyuan District of Taiyuan City, capital of Shanxi. The town, named Jinyang, was one of the most important localities in the Tang Dynasty.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Jinyuan.

Translations

district

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 晉源／晋源 (zh)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Jinyuan”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[6], volume 2, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1451, column 3