Weinan

English

Etymology

From Mandarin 渭南 (Wèinán).

Proper noun

Weinan

  1. A prefecture-level city in Shaanxi, China.
    • 1977, Watson, Andrew, Living in China, Totowa, NJ: Littlefield, Adams & Co., →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 66:
      Shuang-wang is situated on the rich loess of the Wei River valley near the city of Weinan in Shensi Province.
    • 1977, Torbert, Preston M., The Chʻing Imperial Household Department: a Study of its Organization and Principal Functions, 1662-1796, Harvard University Press, →OCLC, page 146:
      When he assumed his duties as imperial agent, one of those who came to pay him a courtesy visit was Chao Chun-jui, the Moslem merchant from Weinan County in Shensi who had bought a large part of the jade sold by Kao P’u’s predecessor, Ma Hsing-a.
    • 2021 January 27, Liu, Roxanne; Ryan Woo, “Chinese cities using anal swabs to screen COVID-19 infections”, in William Maclean, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 27 January 2021, Healthcare & Pharma:
      A throat swab on a 52-year-old man in Weinan, a city in northern Shaanxi province, showed negative result after the person showed symptoms such as coughing and appetite loss, a city official said on Wednesday, but he tested positive using nose and anal swabs.
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Weinan.

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