宛亭

Chinese

		to bend; winding	straight
simp. and trad. (宛亭)		宛	亭

Etymology

An 1086 CE emendation of the county's former name 冤句 (Yuānqú) or 宛句 (Wǎnqú), literally "bending and curving".

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): Wǎntíng

(Zhuyin): ㄨㄢˇ ㄊㄧㄥˊ

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Pinyin: Wǎntíng
  - Zhuyin: ㄨㄢˇ ㄊㄧㄥˊ
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: Woantyng
  - IPA ^(key): /u̯a̠n²¹⁴⁻²¹¹ tʰiŋ³⁵/

Proper noun

宛亭

(～縣) (historical) Wanting (a former county of imperial China during the Song dynasty in modern-day Mudan, Heze, Shandong)
(historical) Yuanqu or Wanting (the county seat, destroyed by a medieval flood of the Yellow River)

Synonyms

See 冤句 (Yuānqú)

References

"冤句音义考" ["Yuānqú Yīnyì Kǎo", "An Inquiry into the Sound and Meaning of Yuanqu"], 《山东方志》 [Shāndōng Fāngzhì, Shandong Local Records], 山东省情网 [Shāndōng Shěng Qíng Wǎng, Shandong Provincial Network], Jinan: Shandong Provincial Archives, 2006. (in Chinese)

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