I-lan
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English[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
From the Wade–Giles romanization of the Mandarin 宜蘭 (I²-lan²).
Proper noun[edit]
I-lan
- Alternative form of Yilan
- 1966 December, “Taiwan”, in Alice Taylor, editor, Focus[1], volume 17, number 4, American Geographical Society, page 2:
- Although Taiwan has the advantages of abundant rains and a long growing season, which make it possible in much of the cultivated area to grow two and even three crops a year on the same plot, there are handicaps. Surface configuration and poor soils have limited the arable area to the western plains, the T'ai-tung Valley, and the I-lan Plain-or only some 24 per cent of the land surface in all.
- 1968, George M. Davis, “A Systematic Study of Oncomelania hupensis chiui (Gastropoda: Hydrobiidae)”, in Malacologia[2], volume 7, number 1, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 65:
- Moreover, the anatomical and biophysical studies described in this paper have not only indicated the snail first described as "Tricula" to be a subspecies of Oncomelania hupensis, but to be most closely related to O. h. formosana, and, in particular, to a population of that subspecies from I-lan county, also located in the northern tip of Taiwan.
- 1970, Leonard H. D. Gordon, editor, Taiwan : Studies in Chinese Local History[3], Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 49:
- Elsewhere, on the east coast an auxiliary force composed of Ōsaka Fourth Division reserves staged landings in the I-lan district on June 21, and in only two days' time had peacefully entered the main towns of Lo-tung and I-lan in that area.
- 1972, Peng Ming-min, A Taste of Freedom[4], Holt, Rinehart and Winston, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 206:
- I was told that the security agencies had determined that in the event of a public disturbance of any kind, three men would be destroyed at once. They were Henry Kao, the present mayor of Taipei, Kuo Yu-shin, an outspoken non-K.M.T. member of the Provincial Assembly elected by a solid constituency in I-lan, and me. The three of us were referred to in security documents by a coded sign, three concentric circles.
Translations[edit]
Yilan — see Yilan
Etymology 2[edit]
From the Wade–Giles romanization of the Mandarin 依蘭 (I¹-lan²).
Proper noun[edit]
I-lan
- Alternative form of Yilan
Translations[edit]
Yilan — see Yilan