Zaoyang

See also: zāoyāng

English

Alternative forms

• Tsaoyang (Postal Romanization)
• Tsao-yang (Wade–Giles)

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 棗陽／枣阳 (Zǎoyáng).

Pronunciation

• enPR: dzouʹyängʹ

Proper noun

Zaoyang

1. A county-level city in Xiangyang, Hubei, China.
   • [1929 November 23, “Government Faced with Triple War Threat”, in The China Weekly Review‎^[2], volume L, number 12, →OCLC, page 468, column 1:

     “It is stated that a general drive against the Kuominchun invaders has already started from Tsaoyang, in North Hupeh, near the Hunan border, and General Liu Shih, the Wuhan garrison commander, expresses con- fidence that his forces, 100,000 in number, are adequate to deal with the situation.]

Translations

county-level city in central China

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 棗陽／枣阳 (zh) (Zǎoyáng)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Zaoyang”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[3], volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 3551, column 3