Lijiang

See also: Lìjiāng

English

Alternative forms

• Li-chiang (Wade–Giles)
• Likiang (dated)

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 麗江 / 丽江 (Lìjiāng).

Pronunciation

• enPR: lē′jyäng′
• Hyphenation: Li‧jiang

Proper noun

Lijiang

1. A prefecture-level city northwestern Yunnan, China.
   • [1922 December 2, [Francis] Kingdon Ward, “Mr. Kingdon Ward’s Seventh Expedition in Asia. No. III. To Lichiang.”, in The Gardeners’ Chronicle: A Weekly Illustrated Journal of Horticulture and Allied Subjects, volume LXXI (Third Series), number 1875, London: 5 Tavistock Street, Covent Garden, W.C.2, →OCLC, page 325, column 1:

     The main road to Lichiang-fu, by Ho-ch'ing, is not followed by the muleteers, except by request, as there is a high mountain to cross.]

   • 2017 June 15, Sarah Kaplan, “Quantum entanglement, science’s ‘spookiest’ phenomenon, achieved in space”, in The Washington Post‎^[1], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 17 June 2017‎^[2]:

     On board the Chinese satellite Micius, which launched last year, a high energy laser was fired through a special kind of crystal, generating entangled photon pairs. This in itself was a feat: the process is sensitive to turbulence, and before the experiment launched scientists weren't completely sure it would work. These photons were transmitted to ground stations in Delingha, a city on the Tibetan Plateau, and Lijiang, in China's far southwest.

   • 2022 January 2, Tony Munroe, Min Zhang, “Earthquake in southwest China's Yunnan injures 15 people”, in Neil Fullick, editor, Reuters‎^[3], archived from the original on 02 January 2022, China‎^[4]:

     A 5.5 magnitude earthquake that rattled the city of Lijiang in southwestern China's Yunnan province on Sunday injured 15 people, the Yunnan Earthquake Agency said on its social media feed.

Translations

a prefecture-level city in west China

• Arabic: لِيجْيَانْغ m (lijyanḡ)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 麗江 / 丽江 (lai⁶ gong¹)

  Mandarin: 麗江 / 丽江 (zh) (Lìjiāng)

• Japanese: 麗江 (れいこう, Reikō)
• Korean: 리장 (Rijang)
• Macedonian: Ли́џианг m (Lídžiang)
• Naxi: Liljai, Yiggv
• Nuosu: ꆺꏦ (Lip jie)
• Russian: Лицзя́н m (Liczján)
• Vietnamese: Lệ Giang

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Lijiang”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[5], volume 2, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1736, column 2

Anagrams

• Jingali, jailing