Wei River

Partial calque of Mandarin 渭河 (Wèihé, literally “Wei river”)

• IPA^(key): /ˈweɪ ˌɹɪvə(ɹ)/

Wei River

1. A major river in west-central China's Gansu and Shaanxi provinces, and the largest tributary of the Yellow River.
   • 1856, Thomas Taylor Meadows, The Chinese and their Rebellions‎, London: Smith, Elder & Co., →OCLC, page 176:

     The fact, therefore, that the Tae pings, when they raised the siege of Hwae king on the 1st September marched westwards by it into Shan se, shows that the Imperial forces were strong enough to prevent their descent by the Wei river.

   • 1921, Eric Teichman, Travels of a Consular Officer in North-West China‎, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →OCLC, →OL, page 3:

     Leaving Kuanyint'ang there is a drop into a ravine and then a stiff climb of a few hundred feet to reach the pass over a range of mountains, the watershed between the Lo and Yellow rivers. This ridge is really the end of one of the principal ranges of the Ch'inling Shan, the one which runs east and west right across Shensi immediately south of the Wei River.

   • 2020 May 11, Ligaya Mishan, “Eating in Xi’an, Where Wheat and Lamb Speak to China’s Varied Palette”, in New York Times‎, archived from the original on 11 May 2020:

     THERE WAS NO China, only a collection of squabbling states, before the short-lived but powerful Qin dynasty (221-206 B.C.) brought terror and unity to the land. The Qin were the first to stake their capital here, on the Wei River, but the country’s Han majority — now the world’s biggest ethnic group, more than a billion strong, representing nearly one out of every six people on earth — take their name from the Qin’s successor, the Han dynasty, which raised a new capital nearby, Chang’an, in 202-200 B.C.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Wei River.

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Wei River”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎, volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 3430, column 1
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