Qimen
English
Alternative forms
- Ch'i-men, Ch'i-mên (Wade–Giles)
- Keemun
Etymology
From the Hanyu Pinyin[1] romanization of Mandarin 祁門／祁门 (Qímén).
Proper noun
Qimen
- A county of Huangshan, Anhui, China.
- [1978, Yu-min Chuang (Yu-ming Chong) [莊育民], “The Historical Development in Acupunctural Medicine [歷史上的發展]”, in Historical Review of the Development of the Chinese Acupuncture [中國鐵灸發展史], Taipei, →OCLC, page 106:
- Wong lived during the Ming Dynasty in Chimen county, Anhui province; his style was Hsing Tse (省之).
- [original: 明代祁門（安徽省）人，字省之。]]
- 2014 May 14, Kate Kelland, “Scientists, drugmakers, charities sign UK deal on animal research”, in Larry King, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 29 April 2022:
- Macaques look out from their cell at the Anhui Provincial Experimental Macaque Training Center in Qimen county, Anhui province, November 19, 2008.
Translations
References
- Shabad, Theodore (1972) “Index”, in China's Changing Map, New York: Frederick A. Praeger, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 345, 354:
- Chinese place names are listed in three common spelling styles: […] (1) the Post Office system, […] (2) the Wade-Giles system, […] shown after the main entry […] (3) the Chinese Communists' own Pinyin romanization system, which also appears in parentheses […] Kimen (Ch'i-men, Qimen)
Further reading
- Qimen, Ch'i-men, Chi-men, Chimen at Google Ngram Viewer
- Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Qinmen”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World, volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 2546, column 2
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