K'ang-ting

From Mandarin 康定 (Kāngdìng), Wade-Giles romanization: Kʻang¹-ting⁴.

• enPR: kängʹdǐngʹ

K'ang-ting

1. Alternative form of Kangding
   • 1931 February 27, quoting Christian Science Monitor, “China's Unknown Peaks Explored”, in The Gateway‎, volume XXI, number 16, University of Alberta, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 3, column 4:

     The expedition, which is under the leadership of Arnold Heim, German natural scientist, and Karl Krejel-Graf, has made its headquarters at K’ang-ting, capital of Szechuan, and is surveying the ranges which stretch 800 miles westward to Batang.

   • 1967, Chêng Tê-kʻun, Archaeological Studies in Szechwan‎, Cambridge University Press, →OCLC, page 44:

     24. K'ANG-TING-TATSIENLU 打箭鑪 (12, 13, 25, 26)
     The city of K’ang-ting, better known to the western reader as Tatsienlu, is the provincial capital of Hsikang. The district of K’ang-ting, which is governed from the city of the same name, covers a very wide area extending over parts of both the Ta-tu valley and the Ya-lung valley.