Shaoyang

English

Etymology

From Mandarin 邵陽／邵阳 (Shàoyáng).

Pronunciation

• enPR: shouʹyängʹ

Proper noun

Shaoyang

1. A prefecture-level city in Hunan, China.
   • 1939 February 4, C. Y. W. [孟長泳] Meng, “China Fights and Rebuilds Simultaneously”, in The China Weekly Review‎^[1], volume 87, number 10, →OCLC, pages 298–299:

     Top, left, weighing shed of a surface coal mine in Shaoyang, southwestern Hunan.[...]The Executive Yuan is understood to be planting the establishment of three “national industrial defence lines,” namely, a northwestern line with headquarters in Paochi, a southwestern line with headquarters in Shaoyang, and a southeastern line in Kiangchow.

   • 2010 June 13, David Barboza, “In China, Unlikely Labor Leader Just Wanted a Middle-Class Life”, in The New York Times‎^[2], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 31 January 2013, Global Business‎^[3]:

     Mr. Tan’s journey from migrant worker to labor organizer began in a small farming community near the city of Shaoyang, in central China’s Hunan Province, where Mao Zedong was born.

   • 2021 June 9, “Quirky China: Nude chat scam hits fully-clothed man, woman gives birth in street, and quadruplets thank hospital for lives”, in AP News‎^[4], archived from the original on 25 August 2022‎^[5]:

     The four high school graduates were born in a small city of Shaoyang in central China’s Hunan province in 2003, but were transferred to a major regional hospital almost immediately because of their unstable vital signs, reported the Xiaoxiang Morning Herald.

Synonyms

• Paoking

Translations

prefecture-level city

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 邵陽／邵阳 (zh) (Shàoyáng)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can

Further reading

• “Shaoyang”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• “Shaoyang” in TheFreeDictionary.com, Huntingdon Valley, Pa.: Farlex, Inc., 2003–2024.