Weinan

From Mandarin 渭南 (Wèinán).

Weinan

1. A prefecture-level city in Shaanxi, China.
   • 1977, Andrew Watson, Living in China‎, Totowa, NJ: Littlefield, Adams & Co., →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 66:

     Shuang-wang is situated on the rich loess of the Wei River valley near the city of Weinan in Shensi Province.

   • 1977, Preston M. Torbert, The Chʻing Imperial Household Department: a Study of its Organization and Principal Functions, 1662-1796‎, Harvard University Press, →OCLC, page 146:

     When he assumed his duties as imperial agent, one of those who came to pay him a courtesy visit was Chao Chun-jui, the Moslem merchant from Weinan County in Shensi who had bought a large part of the jade sold by Kao P’u’s predecessor, Ma Hsing-a.

   • 2014 October 24, Austin Ramzy, “In One Chinese City, Underperformers Also Share the Limelight”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-07-06, Sinosphere‎:

     Weinan, in the western province of Shaanxi, has found a new way to encourage local districts to improve their performance on a series of development-related goals such as infrastructure projects and tax collection.

   • 2021 January 27, Roxanne Liu, Ryan Woo, “Chinese cities using anal swabs to screen COVID-19 infections”, in William Maclean, editor, Reuters‎, archived from the original on 27 January 2021, Healthcare & Pharma:

     A throat swab on a 52-year-old man in Weinan, a city in northern Shaanxi province, showed negative result after the person showed symptoms such as coughing and appetite loss, a city official said on Wednesday, but he tested positive using nose and anal swabs.

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

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Weinan”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎, volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 3430, column 3
• Weinan, Wei-nan at Google Ngram Viewer