Qianyang

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Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 千陽／千阳／汧陽／汧阳.

Proper noun

Qianyang

  1. A county of Baoji, Shaanxi, China.
    • 1983, Mei, Rongzhao, “The Decimal Place-Value Numeration and the Rod and Bead Arithmetics”, in 中国古代科技成就 [Ancient China's Technology and Science] (China Knowledge Series)‎, Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, pages 58-59:
      In recent archaeological excavations a number of ancient counting-rods have been unearthed. More than 30 rods were found in August 1971 in Qianyang County of Shaanxi Province.

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