Hongya

See also: hongya and Hóngyá

English

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 洪雅.

Proper noun

Hongya

1. A county of Meishan, Sichuan, China.
   • [1978, Summary of World Broadcasts: The Far East Weekly Supplement‎^[1], →OCLC, page 17:

     Szechwan. […] By the end of 1977, Hungya County had some 22,600 oxen in sties.]

   • 1998 November 15, Mark O'Neill, “Professor targeted over his TV exposure of illegal logging trade in precious”, in South China Morning Post‎^[2], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 09 October 2023‎^[3]:

     The company used the money to buy a mine with 50 million cubic metres of granite in Hongya county, a poor, remote region in western Sichuan. […]
     Hongya has the fourth largest natural forest in China with an area of 72,000 hectares. Ninety per cent of the trees are more than 100 years old.

   • 2005, The Jade Garden: New & Notable Plants from Asia‎^[4], Timber Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 147:

     In June 1993, Roy Lancaster saw Ribes davidii in the wilds of Hongya County, southwestern Sichuan, growing as an epiphyte in cloud-forest communities at 2700 m, with Rhododendron moupinense, Vaccinium moupinense, and the intriguing pink-flowered, epiphytic Solomon’s seal, Heteropolygonatum xui.

Translations

county

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 洪雅 (zh) (Hóngyǎ)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Hongya”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[5], volume 2, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1305, column 1