Jinchangとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 金昌 (Jīnchāng).

発音

• (anglicized) IPA: /d͡ʒɪnˈt͡ʃæŋ/, (emulating Chinese) /d͡ʒinˈt͡ʃɑŋ/

固有名詞

Jinchang

1. A prefecture-level city in Gansu, in northwestern China.
   • 1981 December 24 [1981 December 11], “Gansu Electrolytic Nickel Production”, in China Report: Economic Affairs, number 192, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Beijing XINHUA, →OCLC, Mineral Resources, page 63:

     Jinchang, China's leading nickel producer, in Gansu Province, met its annual electrolytic nickel production target 70 days ahead of schedule, the Jinchuan Nonferrous Metals Company announced today. […] Jinchang has the second biggest deposits of nickelous sulfide in the world after Canada. The city also has mining, smelting, power and construction industries and facilities for industrial and mining research. Jinchang also produces 20 other metals, including gold, silver, platinum, copper, cobalt, palladium, iridium, ruthenium and rhodium.

   • 2007, Rob Gifford, China Road: One Man's Journey into the Heart of Modern China‎, Bloomsbury, published 2008, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 195:

     When we reach Jinchang, another forlorn desert town, I change buses for another two-hour ride to the town of Yongchang, a few miles from a village where I’ve heard that locals make some extraordinary claims about their ancestry.

   • 2021 June 4, “Train strikes, kills 9 workers on track in northwest China”, in AP News‎, archived from the original on 04 June 2021‎:

     It happened at 5:18 a.m. as the train negotiated a curve in the city of Jinchang in Gansu province about 1,200 kilometers (750 miles) west of Beijing.

   • 2023 February 4 [2023 January], “Building a Beautiful Home”, in All-China Women's Federation‎, archived from the original on 08 March 2023, Women in Action‎:

     In Jinchuan District and Lanzhou New District, both in Jinchang, the supermarkets provide "shared products" to residents, where residents can borrow ladders or other tools as needed.

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Jinchang”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎, volume 2, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1450, column 1