Yichun

From Mandarin 伊春 (Yīchūn).

• enPR: yēʹcho͝onʹ^[1]
• Hyphenation: Yi‧chun

Yichun

1. A prefecture-level city of Heilongjiang, China.
   • 2011 July 16, Henry Sanderson, Michael Forsythe, “In China, loans lure city officials”, in The Washington Post‎^[2], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 03 December 2023, Business‎^[3]:

     That’s the case in Yichun, a Maryland-sized area of about 1.3 million people deep inside the birch and pine forest on China’s border with Russia.
     Yichun is a poor city in a poor province. The income of its residents was little more than half the national average last year. That hasn’t stopped the government from going on a spending spree. The new local police headquarters has a miniature dome reminiscent of that of St. Peter’s Basilica in Vatican City.

   • 2019 February 26, Tiffany May, “Young People Left Behind in China’s Snowbound Rust Belt”, in The New York Times‎^[4], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 26 February 2019, Lens‎^[5]:

     He was in Yichun, a faded boomtown in northeastern China, where in December, 2016 he began photographing young people whose isolation he recognized in his own life.

From Mandarin 宜春 (Yíchūn).

• enPR: yēʹcho͝onʹ^[1]
• Hyphenation: Yi‧chun

Yichun

1. A prefecture-level city of Jiangxi, China.
   • 1964, Yu-ti (任育地) Jen, 中国地理概述 [A Concise Geography of China]‎^[6], Peking: Foreign Languages Press, →OCLC, page 133:

     Yichun and Wantsai produce grass-linen, another distinctive handicraft product.

Yichun

1. Alternative form of Yijun (in Shaanxi, China).
   • 1969, What's Happening on the Chinese Mainland: (1969-1970)‎^[7], volumes 1-2, Chung Hwa Information Service, →OCLC, page 15, column 1:

     […] agricultural Cooperative in Yichun County, Shensi, and this is a mountainous region, the yield per mou is 1,654 catties; at the Ningpo Agricultural Cooperative in Yuse County, Kwangsi, the average yield per mou is 1,600 catties.

   • 1970 October 14 [1970 October 13], “Yenan People Carry Forward Revolutionary Tradition”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China, volume I, number 200, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Peking NCNA International Service, Sian, →OCLC, page H 9:

     Two small coal pits and an open-cut coal mine were opened in Yichun County this year.

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Yichun”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[8], volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 3528, column 1