"Hexi Corridor" meaning in English

See Hexi Corridor in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Proper name

Etymology: Partial calque from Mandarin and from the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 河西走廊 (Héxī Zǒuláng). Etymology templates: {{partial calque|en|cmn|-}} Partial calque from Mandarin, {{bor|en|cmn-pinyin|-}} Hanyu Pinyin, {{bor|en|cmn|-}} Mandarin, {{zh-l|河西走廊}} 河西走廊 (Héxī Zǒuláng) Head templates: {{en-proper noun|head=Hexi Corridor}} Hexi Corridor
  1. (historical) Part of the Northern Silk Road running northwest from the bank of the Yellow River. Consisting of a string of oases, it was the most important route from North China to the Tarim Basin and Central Asia for traders and the military. Wikipedia link: Hexi Corridor Tags: historical Categories (place): Places in China Synonyms: Hexi, Kansu Corridor, Ho-hsi Corridor (alt: Wade–Giles) Translations (corridor): 河西走廊 (Héxī Zǒuláng) (Chinese Mandarin), 河西回廊 (Kasei Kairō) (alt: かせいかいろう) (Japanese), ᡥᡝᠰᡞ ᡯᡝᡠ ᠯᠠᡢ (hesi dzeo lang) (Xibe)

Alternative forms

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "cmn",
        "3": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "Partial calque from Mandarin",
      "name": "partial calque"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "cmn-pinyin",
        "3": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "Hanyu Pinyin",
      "name": "bor"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "cmn",
        "3": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "Mandarin",
      "name": "bor"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "河西走廊"
      },
      "expansion": "河西走廊 (Héxī Zǒuláng)",
      "name": "zh-l"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Partial calque from Mandarin and from the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 河西走廊 (Héxī Zǒuláng).",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "head": "Hexi Corridor"
      },
      "expansion": "Hexi Corridor",
      "name": "en-proper noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "name",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Entries with translation boxes",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Mandarin terms with redundant transliterations",
          "parents": [
            "Terms with redundant transliterations",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Japanese translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Mandarin translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Xibe translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "place",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Places in China",
          "orig": "en:Places in China",
          "parents": [
            "Places",
            "Names",
            "All topics",
            "Proper nouns",
            "Terms by semantic function",
            "Fundamental",
            "Nouns",
            "Lemmas"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "A Concise Geography of China",
          "ref": "[1964, Yu-ti (任育地) Jen, 中国地理概述 [A Concise Geography of China], Peking: Foreign Languages Press, →OCLC, page 195:",
          "text": "The Hohsi Corridor is long, narrow and easily passable. Over 1,000 kilometres in length, it is bordered on the south by the Chilien Mountains and on the north by the broken, slightly lower Peishan Mountains. It is penetrated by the rolling sand from Inner Mongolia. The corridor, though an arid area, is constantly watered by the melting snow and ice from the Chiliens. The irrigation system here goes back 2,000 years, when agriculture was originally developed on the oases on which most of the towns and villages have since arisen.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "[1964 April 14 [1963 November 20], “Small Su-pei Mongol Hsien Grows”, in Communist China Digest, number 117, Joint Publications Research Service, sourced from Peiping, Kuang-ming Jih-pao, →OCLC, page 17:",
          "text": "Su-pei Mongol Autonomous Hsien is situated in the western portion of the Ho-hsi Corridor of Kansu Province, bordering A-k'o-sai Kazakh Autonomous Hsien...",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "[1969, “Northwest China: The Mongolian-Sinkiang Region”, in The Physical Geography of China, volume II, Frederick A. Praeger, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 212:",
          "text": "The geological structure of the Alashan Plain is more complex. The central portion of it was composed of ancient pre-Sinian deposits which were gradually overlaid by a mantle of Quaternary sands, but crop out on the surface in the elevations. The northern part is composed of Paleozoic and Mesozoic (chiefly Cretaceous) sediments while the southern piedmont portion (i.e., the Hohsi Corridor) was filled by beds of Paleozoic sedimentary and Meso-Cenozoic continental deposits which reach particularly great thickness in certain depressions such as the Chiuch’uan, Kanchou and Chaoshui.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1993 August, Miao Wang, Shi Bao Xiu, “A Detour Through the Desert to Etzina”, in Tu Nai Hsien, editor, From the Pamirs to Beijing: Tracing Marco Polo's Northern Route, Hong Kong: HK China Tourism Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 94, column 1:",
          "text": "When we were in Zhangye we consulted a map and saw that the Ruoshui River has its source in the Qilian Mountains, then winds north through the Hexi Corridor and into the desert. It then flows through the forests of Ejin Banner and pours into two lakes — the Gaxun Nur and the Sogo Nur.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2003, Geology and Health: Closing the Gap, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 17:",
          "text": "Dust-fall sampling along the Hexi Corridor shows that while it is traditionally believed that dust storm activity peaks in spring to early summer, the pattern is more complex (Figure 2.2).",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Part of the Northern Silk Road running northwest from the bank of the Yellow River. Consisting of a string of oases, it was the most important route from North China to the Tarim Basin and Central Asia for traders and the military."
      ],
      "id": "en-Hexi_Corridor-en-name-D8Qfgk0D",
      "links": [
        [
          "Silk Road",
          "Silk Road"
        ],
        [
          "Yellow River",
          "Yellow River"
        ],
        [
          "oases",
          "oasis"
        ],
        [
          "Tarim Basin",
          "Tarim Basin"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(historical) Part of the Northern Silk Road running northwest from the bank of the Yellow River. Consisting of a string of oases, it was the most important route from North China to the Tarim Basin and Central Asia for traders and the military."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "Hexi"
        },
        {
          "word": "Kansu Corridor"
        },
        {
          "alt": "Wade–Giles",
          "word": "Ho-hsi Corridor"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "historical"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "Héxī Zǒuláng",
          "sense": "corridor",
          "word": "河西走廊"
        },
        {
          "alt": "かせいかいろう",
          "code": "ja",
          "lang": "Japanese",
          "roman": "Kasei Kairō",
          "sense": "corridor",
          "word": "河西回廊"
        },
        {
          "code": "sjo",
          "lang": "Xibe",
          "roman": "hesi dzeo lang",
          "sense": "corridor",
          "word": "ᡥᡝᠰᡞ ᡯᡝᡠ ᠯᠠᡢ"
        }
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "Hexi Corridor"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "Hexi Corridor"
}
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "cmn",
        "3": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "Partial calque from Mandarin",
      "name": "partial calque"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "cmn-pinyin",
        "3": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "Hanyu Pinyin",
      "name": "bor"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "cmn",
        "3": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "Mandarin",
      "name": "bor"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "河西走廊"
      },
      "expansion": "河西走廊 (Héxī Zǒuláng)",
      "name": "zh-l"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Partial calque from Mandarin and from the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 河西走廊 (Héxī Zǒuláng).",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "head": "Hexi Corridor"
      },
      "expansion": "Hexi Corridor",
      "name": "en-proper noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "name",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English proper nouns",
        "English terms borrowed from Hanyu Pinyin",
        "English terms borrowed from Mandarin",
        "English terms derived from Hanyu Pinyin",
        "English terms derived from Mandarin",
        "English terms partially calqued from Mandarin",
        "English terms with historical senses",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English uncountable nouns",
        "Entries with translation boxes",
        "Mandarin terms with redundant transliterations",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "Terms with Japanese translations",
        "Terms with Mandarin translations",
        "Terms with Xibe translations",
        "en:Places in China"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "A Concise Geography of China",
          "ref": "[1964, Yu-ti (任育地) Jen, 中国地理概述 [A Concise Geography of China], Peking: Foreign Languages Press, →OCLC, page 195:",
          "text": "The Hohsi Corridor is long, narrow and easily passable. Over 1,000 kilometres in length, it is bordered on the south by the Chilien Mountains and on the north by the broken, slightly lower Peishan Mountains. It is penetrated by the rolling sand from Inner Mongolia. The corridor, though an arid area, is constantly watered by the melting snow and ice from the Chiliens. The irrigation system here goes back 2,000 years, when agriculture was originally developed on the oases on which most of the towns and villages have since arisen.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "[1964 April 14 [1963 November 20], “Small Su-pei Mongol Hsien Grows”, in Communist China Digest, number 117, Joint Publications Research Service, sourced from Peiping, Kuang-ming Jih-pao, →OCLC, page 17:",
          "text": "Su-pei Mongol Autonomous Hsien is situated in the western portion of the Ho-hsi Corridor of Kansu Province, bordering A-k'o-sai Kazakh Autonomous Hsien...",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "[1969, “Northwest China: The Mongolian-Sinkiang Region”, in The Physical Geography of China, volume II, Frederick A. Praeger, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 212:",
          "text": "The geological structure of the Alashan Plain is more complex. The central portion of it was composed of ancient pre-Sinian deposits which were gradually overlaid by a mantle of Quaternary sands, but crop out on the surface in the elevations. The northern part is composed of Paleozoic and Mesozoic (chiefly Cretaceous) sediments while the southern piedmont portion (i.e., the Hohsi Corridor) was filled by beds of Paleozoic sedimentary and Meso-Cenozoic continental deposits which reach particularly great thickness in certain depressions such as the Chiuch’uan, Kanchou and Chaoshui.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1993 August, Miao Wang, Shi Bao Xiu, “A Detour Through the Desert to Etzina”, in Tu Nai Hsien, editor, From the Pamirs to Beijing: Tracing Marco Polo's Northern Route, Hong Kong: HK China Tourism Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 94, column 1:",
          "text": "When we were in Zhangye we consulted a map and saw that the Ruoshui River has its source in the Qilian Mountains, then winds north through the Hexi Corridor and into the desert. It then flows through the forests of Ejin Banner and pours into two lakes — the Gaxun Nur and the Sogo Nur.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2003, Geology and Health: Closing the Gap, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 17:",
          "text": "Dust-fall sampling along the Hexi Corridor shows that while it is traditionally believed that dust storm activity peaks in spring to early summer, the pattern is more complex (Figure 2.2).",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Part of the Northern Silk Road running northwest from the bank of the Yellow River. Consisting of a string of oases, it was the most important route from North China to the Tarim Basin and Central Asia for traders and the military."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Silk Road",
          "Silk Road"
        ],
        [
          "Yellow River",
          "Yellow River"
        ],
        [
          "oases",
          "oasis"
        ],
        [
          "Tarim Basin",
          "Tarim Basin"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(historical) Part of the Northern Silk Road running northwest from the bank of the Yellow River. Consisting of a string of oases, it was the most important route from North China to the Tarim Basin and Central Asia for traders and the military."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "Hexi"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "historical"
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "Hexi Corridor"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "Kansu Corridor"
    },
    {
      "alt": "Wade–Giles",
      "word": "Ho-hsi Corridor"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "Héxī Zǒuláng",
      "sense": "corridor",
      "word": "河西走廊"
    },
    {
      "alt": "かせいかいろう",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "Kasei Kairō",
      "sense": "corridor",
      "word": "河西回廊"
    },
    {
      "code": "sjo",
      "lang": "Xibe",
      "roman": "hesi dzeo lang",
      "sense": "corridor",
      "word": "ᡥᡝᠰᡞ ᡯᡝᡠ ᠯᠠᡢ"
    }
  ],
  "word": "Hexi Corridor"
}

Download raw JSONL data for Hexi Corridor meaning in English (5.5kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-12-21 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-12-04 using wiktextract (d8cb2f3 and 4e554ae). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.