Yü-t'ien

English

YÜ-TIEN (KERIYA) (YÜ-T'IEN) (USATC, 1971)

Etymology

From the Wade–Giles romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 于田 (Yü²-tʻien²).

Proper noun

Yü-t'ien

Alternative form of Yutian
- 1921, Aurel Stein, Serindia‎, volume 3, page 1323:
  
  The Later Han Annals do not mention Chʻü-lê; but in the Wei lio it appears along with Jung-lu, Han-mi, and Pʻi-kʻang as a petty kingdom dependent on Yü-tʻien or Khotan.
- 1923, The Travels of Fa-Hsien‎, Cambridge University Press, →OCLC, →OL, pages 90-91:
  Again, Yü-tʻien or Ho-tʻien (Khotan), as it is now called, has been from time immemorial devoted to Mahometanism, as is amply borne out by Illustrated Notices of Western Countries, printed by Imperial authority.

Further reading

Leon E. Seltzer, editor (1952), “Yütien or Yü-t’ien”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World‎, Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 2130, column 3

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