Yin-ch'uan
name
name ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Proper Noun
- 1 Alternative form of Yinchuan. alt-of, alternative
"The Chinese Academy of Sciences held a confetence^([sic – meaning conference]) on sand control recently at Yin-ch'uan for the purpose of examining the results of 8 years of research in sand control on the T'eng-ko'li^([sic – meaning T'eng-ko-li]) Desert."
Example
More examples"The Chinese Academy of Sciences held a confetence^([sic – meaning conference]) on sand control recently at Yin-ch'uan for the purpose of examining the results of 8 years of research in sand control on the T'eng-ko'li^([sic – meaning T'eng-ko-li]) Desert."
Etymology
From Mandarin 銀川 /银川 (Yínchuān), Wade–Giles romanization: Yin²-chʻuan¹.
More for "yin-ch'uan"
Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.