Wanxian
English
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 萬縣／万县 (Wànxiàn).
Proper noun
[edit]Wanxian
- (historical) Synonym of Wanzhou (formerly called Wan County).
- 1999, “Geology”, in Guo Huadong, editor, Radar Remote Sensing Applications in China[1], Taylor & Francis, published 2001, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 134, column 1:
- The Tiefengshan Anticline of Wanxian county, Sichuan Province, is a reversed anticline composed of Triassic and Jurassic rocks and has an axis oriented towards the NE.
- 2018 October 28, Aizhu Chen, Li Pei, “Two dead after China bus plunges 60 meters into river: state media”, in Christopher Cushing, editor, Reuters[2], archived from the original on 2023-05-27, Top News[3]:
- The bus collided around 10 am (0200 GMT) into a private car that was driving against the flow of traffic on a four-lane bridge in the city’s Wanxian area. The bus then veered, broke through the bridge fence and plunged into the Yangtze river.