Zhen'an

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdʒɛnˌɑn/, /-æn/, enPR: jǔnʹänʹ

Etymology 1

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 振安.

Proper noun

Zhen'an

1. A district of Dandong, Liaoning, China.
   • 2020 March 12, Jiang Tao, “Believers Forced to Prove Loyalty to the State with Money”, in Bitter Winter‎^[2], archived from the original on 13 March 2020‎^[3]:

     Last August, the United Front Work Department in the Zhen’an district of Dandong, a prefecture-level city in the northeastern province of Liaoning, issued a document requiring the five officially-sanctioned religious organizations to launch a charity donation campaign.

Translations

district

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 振安 (zh) (Zhèn'ān)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can

Etymology 2

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 鎮安／镇安 (Zhèn'ān).

Proper noun

Zhen'an

1. A county of Shangluo, Shaanxi, China.
   • [1978 [1978 February 18], “County in Shensi Carries out Rectification”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China‎^[4], →ISSN, →OCLC:

     Chenan County is one of Shensi's progressive counties in learning from Tachai. Leaders of the county CCP Committee have provided good examples in fighting in unity. […]
     [SHENSI DAILY 18 February untitled editor's note to a frontpage report by the joint investigation group of the Organization Department of the Shensi Provincial CCP Committee and the Shanglo Prefectural CCP Committee: "The Chenan County CCP Committee Has Taken Exposing and Criticizing the Gang of Four as the Key Link and, in Close Connection With Reality, Seriously Carried Out Rectification of the Party and the Style of Work"]]

   • 1987, Geotectonic Evolution of China‎^[5], →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 150:

     The Landsat photographs have also demonstrated clearly that the Longmen Mt. Deep Fracture extends towards the northeast after passing through the Hanzhong area, and then enters the Qinling Mts. to join with the Lintan-Shanyang Deep Fracture in the vicinity of Zhen’an County.

   • 2018 April 12, “Blast on truck carrying explosives in northern China kills 7”, in AP News‎^[6], archived from the original on 2023-04-14‎^[7]:

     The blast struck just before midnight on Tuesday outside an explosives warehouse, according to a statement from the Zhen’an county government in Shaanxi province posted on its official website.

Translations

county

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 鎮安／镇安 (zh) (Zhèn'ān)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Zhen’an”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[8], volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 3563, column 3