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Jingchuan

Syllables: Jing·chuan/d͡ʒɪŋˈt͡ʃwɑn/

Jingchuan proper noun: a county of Pingliang, Gansu, China.

Proper noun

Jingchuan

  1. A county of Pingliang, Gansu, China.
    • To the east of the ruins are groups of Sariputra stone reliquaries whose shape and decoration are similar to those found in Jingchuan county, Gansu province.1986, “Heilongjiang Province [黑龙江省]”, in Through the Moon Gate: A Guide to China's Historic Monuments, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 252
    • As huangdi, she ordered every prefecture in the land to build a Dayun Temple, each of which would be provided with a copy of the all-important Dayun Sutra. The reliquary in this exhibition is from the Dayun Temple in Jingzhou prefecture (now Jingchuan County, Gansu).2004, James C. Y. Watt, “Art and History in China from the Third to the Eighth Century”, in China: Dawn of a Golden Age, 200-750 AD, New York; New Haven; London: The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Yale...

Forms of Jingchuan

alternative formChingchuan

Origin of Jingchuan

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 涇川 /泾川 (Jīngchuān).

Questions about Jingchuan

What does Jingchuan mean?
Jingchuan means a county of Pingliang, Gansu, China.
What part of speech is Jingchuan?
Jingchuan is a proper noun.
How do you pronounce Jingchuan?
Jingchuan is pronounced /d͡ʒɪŋˈt͡ʃwɑn/.

Words near Jingchuan in the dictionary

  1. Jingang
  2. Jingangshan
  3. jingbang
  4. jingbangs
  5. Jingbian
  6. Jingchuan
  7. Jingdezhen
  8. Jingellic
  9. Jingera
  10. Jinggangshan
  11. Jinggu

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