Qianyang
English
Etymology
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 千陽／千阳／汧陽／汧阳.
Proper noun
Qianyang
- A county of Baoji, Shaanxi, China.
- 1983, Rongzhao Mei, “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.
Translations
county
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Further reading
- Qianyang, Ch'ien-yang, Chien-yang, Chienyang at Google Ngram Viewer
- Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Qianyang”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World, volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 2546, column 1
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