Yutian

• Yutien, Yu-tien, Yü-tien, Yü-t'ien (Wade–Giles)

• enPR: yüʹtyěnʹ[1]

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 于田 (Yútián).

Yutian

1. A county of Hotan prefecture, Xinjiang, China.
   • 2011, “Xinjiang Authorities Implement Ramadan Curbs Amid Renewed Pledges for Tight Controls Over Religion”, in Congressional-Executive Commission on China‎:

     Authorities at the Yutian (Keriye) County Agricultural Bureau, Hoten district, called for each work unit to strengthen "management" of bureau staff and retired workers and to guarantee they "don't believe in religion, attend religious activities, or fast," according to an August 3 report on the Agricultural Bureau's Web site.

   • 2012, Frommer's China (Frommer's)‎, 5th edition, Hoboken: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., →ISBN, →OCLC, page 329:

     These buses stop at the oasis towns of Keriya (Yutian; 177km/110 miles; 3 hr.; ¥25), Niya (Minfeng; 294km/182 miles; 5 hr.; ¥55), and Charchan (Qiemo; 603km/374 miles; 8-10 hr.; ¥105-¥147).

   • 2014 February 12, Chris Buckley, “Earthquake Strikes Remote Area of China”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2014-02-14, Asia Pacific‎:

     Initial reports from the three villages nearest to the epicenter indicated that “there have been no injuries or deaths, and only some homes were cracked,” said Xinhua, the state-run news agency, citing an unidentified county official in Yutian. But officials and the police were still trying to find out if more isolated homes and herders suffered any harm, Xinhua said.
     Yutian County has 220,000 residents across 15,000 square miles, and the vast majority are Uighur, a largely Muslim people who call the county Keriya.

   • 2019 September 10, “Across China: Grape leaves become commodity hot in Xinjiang”, in mingmei, editor, Xinhua News Agency‎, archived from the original on 11 December 2019:

     Gulnisahan Tohti, who has been growing grapes for more than two decades in the township of Langan, Yutian County, never would have imagined that grape leaves would be sold at a higher price than grapes.

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

• (from Uyghur) Keriya, Keriye, Kiria

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 于闐 (Yútián).

Yutian

1. historical region in southern Xinjiang, China
   • 1999, Elizabeth Wayland Barber, The Mummies of Ürümchi‎, W. W. Norton & Company, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 123:

     (We can also use Zhang Qian’s report to fill in more on our map of the Tarim Basin itself. Just west of the stay-behinds lived some people the envoy called the Yumi, then came the Yutian, and beyond the Yutian came the watershed we call the Pamirs, for “west of Yutian, all the rivers flow west and empty into the Western Sea, but east of there they flow eastward into the Salt Swamp.” Yutian thus can only be the west end of the Tarim Basin.)

   • 2015, Rongguang Zhao, A History of Food Culture in China‎, SCPG Publishing Corporation:

     While there, Zhang sent dozens of assistants to visit other nations including Dayuan, Kangju, Daxia, Darouzhi and Anxi (安息) (present day Iran), Yuandu (身毒), and Yutian (于阗) (present day Hetian, Xinjiang) and Yumi (扜罙) (present day Yutian, Xinjiang).

   • 2016, Jeong Su-il, The Silk Road Encyclopedia‎, Seoul Selection U.S.A., Inc.:

     Today known as Hotan or Hetian (和田), this western military stronghold was once known as Yutian (于闐).

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Yutian.
2. A former name for a county of Hotan prefecture, Xinjiang, China.

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Yutian”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎, volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 3542, column 3