Hunchun

See also: Hun-ch'un and Húnchūn

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Etymology

From the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 琿春珲春 (Húnchūn), from Manchu ᡥᡠᠨᠴᡠᠨ (huncun).

Pronunciation

  • enPR: ho͝onʹcho͝onʹ

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Hunchun

  1. A county-level city in Yanbian prefecture, Jilin, China.
    • 1897, China (Annual Cyclopaedia), volume 2, D. Appleton & Company, page 137:
      A convention concluded with China by Count Cassini, the Russian minister at Pekin, in the summer of 1896, in the form in which it was made public, conceded to the Russian Government the privilege of building a branch of the Siberian Railroad from some city in Siberia to Aiyun, in the Amur province, thence southwestward to the provincial capital of Tsitsihar and to Petune, in Kirin, and thence southeastward to the provincial capital of Kirin ; also to make a prolongation from the Russian port of Vladivostok to Hunchun, in Kirin province, and thence to the provincial capital of Kirin.
    • 1910, The Provinces of China, Together with a History of the First Year of H.I.M. Hsuan Tung, and an Account of the Government of China, Shanghai: The National Review Office, →OCLC, →OL, page 155:
      The Tumen is not yet so important as the Yalu, but with the development of a rival to Vladivostock, now a closed port, in Hunchun, it is acquiring greater importance.
    • 1978, Illustrated World War II Encyclopedia, volume 20, H. S. Stuttman Inc., →ISBN, →OCLC, page 2701:
      Hu-t'ou and Tung-ning fell within the first two days, and by August 11 Mu-leng and Hunchun had fallen.
    • 2020 September 20, Shivani Singh; Sophie Yu, “Coronavirus found on imported squid packaging in China”, in Philippa Fletcher, editor, Reuters, Health News:
      The Changchun COVID-19 prevention office said the squid had been imported from Russia by a company in Hunchun city and brought to the provincial capital.
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Hunchun.

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