Yesanguan

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Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 野三關／野三关 (Yěsānguān).

Proper noun

Yesanguan

  1. A town in Badong, Enshi prefecture, Hubei, China.
    • 2013, Wolfgang Kunth, editor, Terra Maxima: the Records of Humankind‎, Firefly Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 374:
      This bridge is a 0.7 mile (1.1 km) long suspension bridge spanning the deeply carved valley of the Sidu River near Yesanguan in Badong County, in the southwest of China's Hubei Province.
    • 2013, Bridge and Structural Engineering Branch, China Highway and Transportation Society, editor, Innovation-Oriented Contemporary Chinese Bridges‎, Paths International, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 210:
      The Sidu River Bridge is located in Yesanguan Town, Badong County, Enshi Prefecture, Hubei, and formulates an essential link in the Yichang — Enshi section of Shanghai — Chengdu National Highway. Its main structure is a truss girder suspension bridge 900m in main span length (Fig. 1).
    • 2016 May 17, Williams, Sophie, “Now THAT'S a high-way! Spectacular aerial images show China's impressive mountain overpass built over a 1,630ft valley”, in Daily Mail MailOnline‎, archived from the original on 18 May 2016:
      The suspension bridge is situated in the remote Yesanguan Town of Badong County, Enshi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture, over Sidu River.
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Yesanguan.

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