Nanyang

See also: Nányáng

English

Alternative forms

• Nan-yang (Wade–Giles)

Etymology 1

From Mandarin 南陽／南阳 (Nányáng).

Proper noun

Nanyang

1. A prefecture-level city in Henan, China.
   • 1798, “HONAN”, in Dobson's Encyclopædia‎^[1], volume VIII, Philadelphia: Thomas Dobson, →OCLC, page 639:

     In one of theſe cities named Nanyang, is found a kind of ſerpent, the ſkin of which is marked with ſmall white ſpots : the Chineſe phyſicians ſteep it in wine, and uſe it afterwards as an excellent remedy againſt the palſy.

   • 2015 November 21, Chris Buckley, “China’s Nuclear Vision Collides With Villagers’ Fears”, in The New York Times‎^[2], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 22 November 2015, Asia Pacific‎^[3]:

     Other villagers expressed a mix of resignation and worry. Residents in Nanyang, a city of 1.5 million about 20 miles to the south, have also voiced alarm on the Internet and called for the project to be scuttled.
     “Here and around Nanyang, there’s opposition, but that’s futile,” said Li Chaoyong, 50, who builds and repairs homes around Hubin. “But if there are problems again like in Japan ...” His voice trailed off, and he shook his head.

   • 2018 April 3, Frank Sieren, “Sieren's China: Facial recognition”, in Deutsche Welle‎^[4], archived from the original on February 22, 2024, Technology‎^[5]:

     China Southern Airlines has been testing the use of facial recognition technology in the city of Nanyang.

   • 2021, Jianxiong Ge, Yunsheng Hu, A Historical Survey of the Yellow River and the River Civilizations‎^[6], →ISBN, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 184:

     Northern Hubei was centered around Xiangzhou, Xiangyang (modern Xiangfan of Hubei), the seat of local government of Xiangzhou, was a major gathering point for southward emigration out of the Central Plains due to its location at the intersection between the Han River and the trunk road from Nanyang to Jiangling.

Descendants

• Translingual: Nanyangosaurus

Translations

prefecture-level city

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 南陽／南阳 (zh) (Nányáng)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can

Further reading

• Nanyang, Nan-yang at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.
• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Nanyang”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[7], volume 2, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 2118, column 2

Etymology 2

From Mandarin 南洋 (Nányáng).

Alternative forms

• Nan Yang

Proper noun

Nanyang

1. Synonym of Southeast Asia vis-à-vis the Chinese and Peranakan cultures: the Mandarin Chinese-derived name.
   • 1972, C. P. Fitzgerald, The Southern Expansion of the Chinese People: "Southern Fields and Southern Ocean"‎^[8], London: Barrie & Jenkins, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 189:

     In other parts of the Nanyang the Chinese were never prominent in Communist Parties except, later, in Sarawak, where the local Chinese Communist faction attempted with little success to gain control of the Sarawak United Peoples’ Party (S.U.P.P.), a party largely Chinese-supported, which emerged as one of the legal political parties after Sarawak obtained self-government in 1956.

   • 1985, Michael A. Goldberg, “The Backdrop: The Overseas Chinese and the Role of Land, Business, and Family in Chinese Society”, in The Chinese Connection: Getting Plugged in to Pacific Rim Real Estate, Trade, and Capital Markets‎^[9], Vancouver: University of British Columbia, →ISBN, →OCLC, pages 14–15:

     Different areas of Southeast Asia received Chinese emigrants from different regions of China, so that in the Nanyang an enormous diversity can be found, reflecting the diversity of regions and villages from whence the emigrants flowed.
     Some sense of this diversity, and the dominance in each of the nations of the Nanyang by people from one or two specific regions of China, can be obtained from Tables 1 and 2. Table 1 depicts the major language groups of the emigrants as well as the regions in China where those languages were spoken. Table 2 sets out the distribution by Southeast Asian country of Chinese regional dialects and shows the diversity that exists from country to country.

   • 1998, Betty Lim King, “Prologue”, in Girl on a Leash: The Healing Power of Dogs A Memoir‎^[10], Sanctuary Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 3:

     I was the second of five sisters in an expatriate Chinese family in the Philippines, in the Nanyang or Southeast Asia, where throughout history Chinese were an underdog minority living a precarious, rollercoaster kind of existence.

Further reading

• “Nanyang, pn.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.