Changan
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Definitions
- 1 Alternative spelling of Chang'an, former name of Xi'an: a city, the former capital of China. alt-of, alternative, historical, proscribed, sometimes
"In the poems of the historian Pʽan Ku, who belong to the 1st century there are two celebrated for their description of the palaces of Changan and Loyang. He wrote the first of these in order to persuade the emperor not to allow the old imperial buildings at Changan to be destroyed."
- 2 Alternative form of Chang'an, a district and former county of Xi'an, Shaanxi Province, China. alt-of, alternative, proscribed, sometimes
"The exact sites of Feng and Hao have yet to be verified, but seven pits containing chariots, horses and other Zhou burial objects were discovered at Fengxi, and a concentration of Western Zhou relics and tombs was found in the area of Doumen in Changan County on the east bank of the Feng River."
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More examples"In the poems of the historian Pʽan Ku, who belong to the 1st century there are two celebrated for their description of the palaces of Changan and Loyang. He wrote the first of these in order to persuade the emperor not to allow the old imperial buildings at Changan to be destroyed."
Etymology
From Mandarin 長安 /长安 (Cháng'ān); reinforced by Hanyu Pinyin but lacking the apostrophe required to show the correct characters involved. See 隔音符號 /隔音符号 (géyīn fúhào) for more.
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