Yuan'an

English

Alternative forms

• Yuanan (Postal Romanization)
• Yüan-an (Wade–Giles)

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 遠安／远安 (Yuǎn'ān).

Proper noun

Yuan'an

1. A county of Yichang, Hubei, China.
   • [1967, J. D. Frodsham, “Notes to the Poems”, in The Murmuring Stream: The Life and Works of the Chinese Nature Poet Hsieh Ling-yün (385-433), Duke of K’ang-Lo‎^[1], volume 2, Kuala Lumpur: University of Malaya Press, →OCLC, page 192:

     7. The river Chü 沮 rises in Pao-k’ang 保康 county, Hupei, and runs through Yüan-an 遠安 county where it is joined by the Chang 漳.]

   • 2005, Lihui Yang, Deming An, Jessica Anderson Turner, “LEIZU”, in Handbook of Chinese Mythology (Handbooks of World Mythology)‎^[2], ABC-Clio, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 167:

     In Yuan'an County, Hubei Province, there is a Leizu temple (also named the Temple of the Sericulture Goddess). Since Leizu is said to have been born on March 15 in this county, a temple fair is held on every lunar March 15.

   • [2008, Bret Hinsch, “Yellow Tea”, in The Ultimate Guide to Chinese Tea‎^[3], →ISBN, →OCLC:

     Luyuan Hairy Points (Luyuan maojian)
     This tea comes from the area around the Luyuan Temple in Yuanan County, Hubei.]

   • [2015 July 13, “Ancient temple site discovered in Yuanan County, Hubei”, in General Office of Hubei Provincial People's Government‎^[4], archived from the original on 06 July 2022:

     An ancient temple site which dated back to Ming Dynasty was discovered in Yuanan County of central China’s Hubei Province on July 10, 2015.]

   • 2012, “The Old Soldier of Yuan'an”, in Record of the Listener: Selections of Chinese Supernatural Stories‎^[5], Long River Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 128:

     There was a townsman from Yuan'an County in Xia Prefecture (modern Yichang in Hubei) who had boundless faith in Buddha and the immortals.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Yuan'an.

Translations

a county in central China

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 遠安／远安 (zh) (Yuǎn'ān)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can

Further reading

• Leon E. Seltzer, editor (1952), “Yüanan”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World‎^[6], Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 2128, column 1
• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Yuan'an”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[7], volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 3536, column 2