Hengyang

English

Alternative forms

• Heng-yang (Wade–Giles)

Etymology

Borrowed from Mandarin 衡陽／衡阳 (Héngyáng).

Proper noun

Hengyang

1. A prefecture-level city in Hunan, China.
   • 1979 July 15, “Publication for freedom”, in Free China Weekly‎^[1], volume XX, number 27, Taipei, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 3:

     A publication circulated recently in the Hengyang area of Hunan Province called on the mainland people to rise against Communism to uphold freedom and democracy, an intelligence report from the mainland said.

2. A county of Hengyang, Hunan, China.

Translations

prefecture-level city or county of Hunan, China

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 衡陽／衡阳 (zh) (Héngyáng)

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Hengyang”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[2], volume 2, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1267, column 1