See Lien-chiang in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
{
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "cmn-wadegiles",
"3": "-"
},
"expansion": "Wade–Giles",
"name": "bor"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "cmn",
"3": "連江",
"tr": "Lien²-chiang¹"
},
"expansion": "Mandarin 連江／连江 (Lien²-chiang¹)",
"name": "uder"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From the Wade–Giles romanization of the Mandarin 連江／连江 (Lien²-chiang¹).",
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"nolinkhead": "1"
},
"expansion": "Lien-chiang",
"name": "en-proper noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "name",
"senses": [
{
"alt_of": [
{
"word": "Lienchiang"
}
],
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "50 50",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "50 50",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English undefined derivations",
"parents": [
"Undefined derivations",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "50 50",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 1 entry",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "50 50",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1988, “Matsu Islands”, in Republic of China, United Pacific International, →OCLC, page 194:",
"text": "The Matsu Islands are made up of nineteen islets, which are a part of Lien-chiang county of Fukien province. The total area of the island group is only 28.8 sq km. These islands were uninhabited before the Yüan dynasty. Later, fishermen from Fukien and Chekiang used the islands for shelter and rest. From the Ming dynasty, fishermen began to settle there.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1992, Richard Louis Edmonds, edited by Graham P. Chapman and Kathleen M. Baker, The Changing Geography of Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau (The Changing Geography of Asia), Routledge, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 160:",
"text": "Since 1949, Taiwan has remained under Nationalist (Kuomintang) control along with the off-shore islands of Chin-men (Kinmen) and Ma-tsu (Lien-chiang County) in Fujian Province. Chin-men and Lien-chiang County are to end their period of direct military rule and to elect their first country magistrates in 1993.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1993 April 20, Andrew J. Nathan, “The Legislative Yuan Elections in Taiwan: Consequences of the Electoral System”, in Asian Survey, volume 33, number 4, page 428:",
"text": "In a total registered electorate of 13,421,170, the smallest number of votes needed to win amounts to as few as 20,000 to 50,000 in many districts.⁶\n...\n⁶This is leaving aside certain small districts such as P'eng-hu, Lien-chiang, and Chin-men counties where even smaller vote counts are sufficient to win because of small population size.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2014 May, Godfrey Baldacchino, Huei-Min Tsai, “Contested enclave metageographies: The offshore islands of Taiwan”, in Political Geography, volume 40, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 16, column 1:",
"text": "Martial law was lifted from most of the offshore islands in 1987; and then from both island groups of Kinmen (officially, Kinmen county of Fujian province, ROC) and Matsu (Lien-chiang county of Fujian province, ROC) in 1992.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Alternative form of Lienchiang"
],
"id": "en-Lien-chiang-en-name-2QpjwGay",
"links": [
[
"Lienchiang",
"Lienchiang#English"
]
],
"tags": [
"alt-of",
"alternative"
]
},
{
"alt_of": [
{
"word": "Lianjiang"
}
],
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "50 50",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "50 50",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English undefined derivations",
"parents": [
"Undefined derivations",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "50 50",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 1 entry",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "50 50",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1889 [1888 October 19], “Typhoon at Foochow”, in Translation of the Peking Gazette for 1888, Shanghai: North China Herald, page 149:",
"text": "The neighbouring Districts of Lien-chiang and Lo-yuan were injured by the same storm, the former rather the more severely of the two.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1890, Arthur H. Smith, Chinese Characteristics, Shanghai: North China Herald, pages 229-230:",
"text": "Within a few weeks of the appearance of this memorial in the Peking Gazette, one of the leading Chinese newspapers contained a detailed account of a custom which is said to exist in the district of Lien-chiang, situated within the jurisdiction of the prefecture of Foochow.\n. . .\nHence there is a scarcely a family in Lien-chiang, which cannot boast of a 'virtuous widow,' and the whole country is studded with pʻai-lous erected in their honour.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "[1940, Edwin O. Reischauer, “Notes on T'ang Dynasty Sea Routes”, in Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies, volume 5, Cambridge, Mass., page 155:",
"text": "Japanese sources mention five cases in which ships engaged in foreign intercourse either landed in or set sail from Fukien or southern Chekiang ports....in 853 the monk Eun 惠運 landed in the neighborhood of Lien-chiang-hsien 連江縣 east of Fu-chou in northern Fukien,....",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1971, Alan P. L. Liu, Communications and National Integration in Communist China, University of California Press, →ISBN, page 172:",
"text": "To counter this resurgence, the Socialist Education campaign was initiated in 1962. The revival of various traditional customs such as conspicuous consumption, marriage by sale, superstition, and petty trade is well documented in the confidential files of the Party branch in Lien-chiang county, Fukien province.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1971, Charles Neuhauser, The Chinese Communist Party in the 1960s: Prelude to the Cultural Revolution (China In Ferment Perspectives on the Cultural Revolution), Prentice Hall, page 35:",
"text": "Lien-chiang county inaugurated a program of socialist education and ideological training almost as soon as the Tenth Plenum had concluded, but quickly discovered that problems at the basic level were so numerous that a new rectification campaign would have to be conducted before a more ambitious program could be properly launched.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1986, Tai-chün Kuo, Ramon H. Myers, Understanding Communist China, Stanford, California: Hoover Institution Press, page 8:",
"text": "Another group of materials, acquired during the night of March 4, 1964 by a Nationalist commando raid, contained official policies pertaining to fourteen rural communes of Lien-chiang county in Fukien.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Alternative form of Lianjiang"
],
"id": "en-Lien-chiang-en-name-fyX7lKud",
"links": [
[
"Lianjiang",
"Lianjiang#English"
]
],
"tags": [
"alt-of",
"alternative"
]
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"Army Map Service"
],
"word": "Lien-chiang"
}
{
"categories": [
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English multiword terms",
"English proper nouns",
"English terms borrowed from Wade–Giles",
"English terms derived from Mandarin",
"English terms derived from Wade–Giles",
"English uncountable nouns",
"English undefined derivations",
"Pages with 1 entry",
"Pages with entries"
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "cmn-wadegiles",
"3": "-"
},
"expansion": "Wade–Giles",
"name": "bor"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "cmn",
"3": "連江",
"tr": "Lien²-chiang¹"
},
"expansion": "Mandarin 連江／连江 (Lien²-chiang¹)",
"name": "uder"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From the Wade–Giles romanization of the Mandarin 連江／连江 (Lien²-chiang¹).",
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"nolinkhead": "1"
},
"expansion": "Lien-chiang",
"name": "en-proper noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "name",
"senses": [
{
"alt_of": [
{
"word": "Lienchiang"
}
],
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1988, “Matsu Islands”, in Republic of China, United Pacific International, →OCLC, page 194:",
"text": "The Matsu Islands are made up of nineteen islets, which are a part of Lien-chiang county of Fukien province. The total area of the island group is only 28.8 sq km. These islands were uninhabited before the Yüan dynasty. Later, fishermen from Fukien and Chekiang used the islands for shelter and rest. From the Ming dynasty, fishermen began to settle there.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1992, Richard Louis Edmonds, edited by Graham P. Chapman and Kathleen M. Baker, The Changing Geography of Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau (The Changing Geography of Asia), Routledge, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 160:",
"text": "Since 1949, Taiwan has remained under Nationalist (Kuomintang) control along with the off-shore islands of Chin-men (Kinmen) and Ma-tsu (Lien-chiang County) in Fujian Province. Chin-men and Lien-chiang County are to end their period of direct military rule and to elect their first country magistrates in 1993.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1993 April 20, Andrew J. Nathan, “The Legislative Yuan Elections in Taiwan: Consequences of the Electoral System”, in Asian Survey, volume 33, number 4, page 428:",
"text": "In a total registered electorate of 13,421,170, the smallest number of votes needed to win amounts to as few as 20,000 to 50,000 in many districts.⁶\n...\n⁶This is leaving aside certain small districts such as P'eng-hu, Lien-chiang, and Chin-men counties where even smaller vote counts are sufficient to win because of small population size.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2014 May, Godfrey Baldacchino, Huei-Min Tsai, “Contested enclave metageographies: The offshore islands of Taiwan”, in Political Geography, volume 40, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 16, column 1:",
"text": "Martial law was lifted from most of the offshore islands in 1987; and then from both island groups of Kinmen (officially, Kinmen county of Fujian province, ROC) and Matsu (Lien-chiang county of Fujian province, ROC) in 1992.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Alternative form of Lienchiang"
],
"links": [
[
"Lienchiang",
"Lienchiang#English"
]
],
"tags": [
"alt-of",
"alternative"
]
},
{
"alt_of": [
{
"word": "Lianjiang"
}
],
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1889 [1888 October 19], “Typhoon at Foochow”, in Translation of the Peking Gazette for 1888, Shanghai: North China Herald, page 149:",
"text": "The neighbouring Districts of Lien-chiang and Lo-yuan were injured by the same storm, the former rather the more severely of the two.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1890, Arthur H. Smith, Chinese Characteristics, Shanghai: North China Herald, pages 229-230:",
"text": "Within a few weeks of the appearance of this memorial in the Peking Gazette, one of the leading Chinese newspapers contained a detailed account of a custom which is said to exist in the district of Lien-chiang, situated within the jurisdiction of the prefecture of Foochow.\n. . .\nHence there is a scarcely a family in Lien-chiang, which cannot boast of a 'virtuous widow,' and the whole country is studded with pʻai-lous erected in their honour.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "[1940, Edwin O. Reischauer, “Notes on T'ang Dynasty Sea Routes”, in Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies, volume 5, Cambridge, Mass., page 155:",
"text": "Japanese sources mention five cases in which ships engaged in foreign intercourse either landed in or set sail from Fukien or southern Chekiang ports....in 853 the monk Eun 惠運 landed in the neighborhood of Lien-chiang-hsien 連江縣 east of Fu-chou in northern Fukien,....",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1971, Alan P. L. Liu, Communications and National Integration in Communist China, University of California Press, →ISBN, page 172:",
"text": "To counter this resurgence, the Socialist Education campaign was initiated in 1962. The revival of various traditional customs such as conspicuous consumption, marriage by sale, superstition, and petty trade is well documented in the confidential files of the Party branch in Lien-chiang county, Fukien province.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1971, Charles Neuhauser, The Chinese Communist Party in the 1960s: Prelude to the Cultural Revolution (China In Ferment Perspectives on the Cultural Revolution), Prentice Hall, page 35:",
"text": "Lien-chiang county inaugurated a program of socialist education and ideological training almost as soon as the Tenth Plenum had concluded, but quickly discovered that problems at the basic level were so numerous that a new rectification campaign would have to be conducted before a more ambitious program could be properly launched.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1986, Tai-chün Kuo, Ramon H. Myers, Understanding Communist China, Stanford, California: Hoover Institution Press, page 8:",
"text": "Another group of materials, acquired during the night of March 4, 1964 by a Nationalist commando raid, contained official policies pertaining to fourteen rural communes of Lien-chiang county in Fukien.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Alternative form of Lianjiang"
],
"links": [
[
"Lianjiang",
"Lianjiang#English"
]
],
"tags": [
"alt-of",
"alternative"
]
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"Army Map Service"
],
"word": "Lien-chiang"
}
Download raw JSONL data for Lien-chiang meaning in English (6.1kB)
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.