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See also: Hanyang
English
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Etymology
[edit]From the Wade–Giles romanization of the Mandarin 漢陽 (Han⁴-yang²).[1]
Proper noun
[edit]Han-yang
- Alternative form of Hanyang
- 1929, William Robson, Griffith John of Hankow (Bright Biographies Series)[1], Pickering & Inglis, →OCLC, page 64:
- Lying on the right bank of the Yang-tse, opposite the departmental city of Han-yang and near to Hankow, its walls are about ten miles in circumference, and its population is about four hundred thousand.
- 1968, “HUPEH”, in Encyclopedia Britannica[2], volume 11, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 902, column 1:
- Commercially, Wu-han (Hankow, Wu-ch'ang and Han-yang) municipality commands the gateway to the Szechwan basin in the west and to Hunan and Kweichow in the south and southwest. Ocean-going steamships reach Wu-han and transport products to Shanghai and abroad. Across the Han river bridge from Hankow is the heavy-industry centre of Han-yang. From the latter runs the great bridge across the Yangtze joining Hankow and the provincial seat of Wu-ch'ang.
- 1975, Wu-han (Briefs on Selected PRC Cities)[4], Central Intelligence Agency, page 4:
- Han-yang is the smallest of the three cities. It was founded about A.D. 600 but, like neighboring Han-k'ou, remained relatively unimportant until the last half of the 19th century.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Han-yang.
Translations
[edit]Hanyang — see Hanyang
References
[edit]- ^ Hanyang, Wade-Giles romanization Han-yang, in Encyclopædia Britannica
Further reading
[edit]- “Han-yang”, in Collins English Dictionary.
- “Han-yang”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
- “Han-yang” in TheFreeDictionary.com, Huntingdon Valley, Pa.: Farlex, Inc., 2003–2024.