Nanchuan

English

Alternative forms

• Nan-ch'uan (Wade–Giles)

Etymology

From the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 南川 (Nánchuān).

Pronunciation

• enPR: nänʹchwänʹ

Proper noun

Nanchuan

1. A district of Chongqing, China.
   • 1957 July, Elizabeth McClintock, “Hydrangeas”, in National Horticultural Magazine‎^[1], volume 36, number 3, American Horticultural Society, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 277:

     A specimen collected at Nanchuan, Szechuan, by the two German collectors Bock and von Rosthorn, was named H. xanthoneura.

   • 2014 August 12, “Floods batter southwestern China”, in Al Jazeera‎^[2], archived from the original on 07 May 2022:

     Sanquan township in Nanchuan district, Chongqing, has received 305mm of rain in the past three days, the heaviest downpour since records began, the official Xinhua news agency reported on Tuesday, citing meteorological authorities.[...]
     In Nanchuan district, two road workers were reported missing, while 32 homes collapsed, and 360 were evacuated, Xinhua reported.

Translations

district

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 南川 (zh) (Nánchuān)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can