Xingyang

See also: Xíngyáng

English

Alternative forms

• Hsing-yang (Wade–Giles)

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 滎陽／荥阳 (Xíngyáng).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʃɪŋˈjæŋ/

Proper noun

Xingyang

1. A county-level city in Zhengzhou, Henan, China.
   • [1979 February, Chao Chien, “The Chin Dynasty: Unified Fedual Rule”, in China Reconstructs‎^[1], volume XXVIII, number 2, China Welfare Institute, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 63:

     Wu Kuang, who had been leading another army in an attack at Hsingyang (west of present-day Chengchow in Honan province), a strategic town held by the Chin forces, was killed by a subordinate officer.]

   • [1985, Jürgen Domes, “Social Developments and Problems”, in The Government and Politics of the PRC: A Time of Transition‎^[2], Westview Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 216:

     Only the teams continued to function as production units, but for them, the pre-1958 term "agricultural production cooperative" was now used again.⁶⁹ Similar provisions were suggested in a statement made by the secretary of the district (ti-ch'ü) PC of Hsingyang in Honan,⁷⁰ a move that seems particularly delicate because the district of Hsingyang includes Suip'ing hsien, where, in mid-April 1958, the first people's commune in China had been established.]

   • 2013 December 26, Didi Kirsten Tatlow, “Homeowner’s ‘Cannons’ Warn Demolition Teams: No Closer”, in The New York Times‎^[3], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 20 October 2022, Sinosphere‎^[4]:

     With hundreds of homes around him demolished, and fearing for his own, Zhou Jianbang, a man in Xingyang city, Henan Province, has built a half-dozen black “cannons” and stationed them around his house as warning to demolition teams to stay away, a state-run news agency reported.

Translations

county-level city in central China

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 滎陽／荥阳 (zh) (Xíngyáng)

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