Yingde

See also: yīngdé, yíngdé, and Yīngdé

English

Alternative forms

• Ying-te, Ying-tê (Wade–Giles)

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 英德 (Yīngdé).

Proper noun

Yingde

1. A county-level city in Guangdong, China.
   • [1945 January 26, “Japanese Take Yingtak; McClure Is Transferred”, in The New York Times‎^[1], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 03 December 2023, page 9‎^[2]:

     Japanese forces in a three-pronged drive to strengthen their corridor bisecting China have taken Yingtak and are being engaged eighteen miles south of Kuoming, provisional capital of […]]

   • 2016 September 26, Nicholas Bakalar, “Ringing Up a New Species of Crab”, in The New York Times‎^[3], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 24 October 2022, SCIENCE‎^[4]:

     A previously unknown freshwater crab has been discovered in plain sight: on sale at a pet shop in China.
     The shop owner led scientists to the place where the crab had been collected, in Yingde City in northern Guangdong, a subtropical province on the coast of the South China Sea.

Translations

city

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 英德 (zh) (Yīngdé)

Further reading

• Leon E. Seltzer, editor (1952), “Yingtak”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World‎^[5], Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 2124, column 2
• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Yingde”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[6], volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 3528, column 2

Anagrams

• Gidney, dingey, dyeing