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Yichuan

Syllables: Yi·chuan

Yichuan proper noun: a county of Yan'an, Shaanxi, China.

Proper noun (1)

Yichuan

  1. A county of Yan'an, Shaanxi, China.
    • Hukou Waterfalls is the second largest waterfall in China, behind Huangguoshu in Guizhou Province. It lies in Hukou Township, Yichuan County, Shaanxi Province, with Jixian County in Shanxi Province on the opposite bank.2000 March, Zhou Ping, “Blue Skies and Yellow Loess — Spring Festival in Northern Shaanxi”, in China Tourism, number 236, H.K. China Tourism Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 31, column 1
    • Military expenses were frequently at the root of such deficits. One early investigation of arrears in Shaanxi’s Yichuan county is typical. An audit of the Yichuan granary revealed a shortage of nearly 3,000 piculs (dan) of grain.2007, Patricia M. Thornton, Disciplining the State: Virtue, Violence, and State-Making in Modern China, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 37

Proper noun (2)

Yichuan

  1. A county of Luoyang, Henan, China.
    • The Yichuan County revolutionary committee was set up on 27 January. Some 27,000 people in Yichuan County held a celebration rally. (Wang I), commissar of Loyang military subdistrict, on behalf of the Loyang Special District revolutionary committee and the Loyang military subdistrict, attended and...1968 February 8 [1968 February 6], “Yichuan Committee”, in Daily Report: Communist China, number 28, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Chengchow Honan Provincial, translation of...
    • A rural lender based in China’s central Henan province sought to assure depositors of its financial health after a high volume of over-the-counter requests at some of its branches on Tuesday, amid concerns of liquidity issues at smaller Chinese lenders.
      As a result, operation at those branches was...2019 October 29, Cheng Leng, Ryan Woo, “Rural Chinese bank seeks to assure depositors”, in Ed Osmond, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 21 May 2023, Banking and Financial News

Origin of Yichuan

From Mandarin 宜川 (Yíchuān).

From Mandarin 伊川 (Yīchuān).

Questions about Yichuan

What does Yichuan mean?
Yichuan means a county of Yan'an, Shaanxi, China.
What part of speech is Yichuan?
Yichuan is a proper noun.

Words near Yichuan in the dictionary

  1. Yibin
  2. Yibit
  3. yibum
  4. Yichang
  5. Yicheng
  6. Yichuan
  7. yichud
  8. Yichun
  9. yichus
  10. yick
  11. yicker

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