Jiuquanとは 意味・読み方・使い方

別の表記

• Chiu-ch'üan, Chiuchuan (Wade–Giles)

語源

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 酒泉 (Jiǔquán).

発音

• enPR: jyō′chüăn′
• ハイフネーション: Jiu‧quan

固有名詞

Jiuquan

1. A prefecture-level city of Gansu, China.
   • 2017 January 15, Javier C. Hernández, “It Can Power a Small Nation. But This Wind Farm in China Is Mostly Idle.”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 16 January 2017, Asia Pacific‎:

     The wind howls outside, but many turbines in Jiuquan, a city of vast deserts and farms in the northwest province of Gansu, have been shut off because of weak demand.

   • 2020 September 12, “China says Mars probe stable; no word on reusable spacecraft”, in AP News‎, archived from the original on 19 May 2022‎:

     The program has also suffered the occasional setback. The northwestern satellite launch center of Jiuquan reported that an optical satellite launched midday Saturday failed to enter its preset orbit after abnormalities were observed during the flight of its carrier rocket.

Further reading

• Jiuquan in Encyclopædia Britannica
• Seltzer, Leon E., editor (1952), “Kiuchüan or Chiu-chüan”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World, Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 958, column 1: “Until 1913 called Suchow [translating 肅州 / 肃州 (Sùzhōu)].”
• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Jiuquan”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎, volume 2, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1452, column 3