Yueyang

See also: Yuèyáng

English

Alternative forms

• Yueh-yang (Wade–Giles)
• Yoyang (dated)

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 岳陽／岳阳 (Yuèyáng).

Proper noun

Yueyang

1. A prefecture-level city in Hunan, China.
   • [1982, Roy M. Stanley II, “The Land War in China”, in Prelude to Pearl Harbor‎^[1], New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 128, column 1:

     Japanese troops were pulled to Yuehyang, at the junction of the Hsiang and Yangtze rivers, from Hunan, Honan, and Hupeh provinces.]

   • [1999, Chiang Kuei, translated by Timothy A. Ross, A Translation of the Chinese Novel Chung-yang (Rival Suns) by Chiang Kuei (1908-1980)‎^[2], Edwin Mellen Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 342:

     In his capacity as Thief-punishing General, after the grand birthday celebrations in Hankow, he transferred his headquarters to Yüeh-yang.]

2. A county of Yueyang City, Hunan, China.
   • 2007 July 16, “China officials deny flood rats on the menu”, in Reuters‎^[3], archived from the original on 2023-04-16, Oddly Enough‎^[4]:

     A farmer holds up a rat that he killed along the Dongting Lake in Yueyang, in central China's Hunan province, July 10, 2007. Live rats are being trucked from central China, suffering a plague of a reported 2 billion rodents displaced by a flooded lake, to the south to end up in restaurant dishes, Chinese media reported. […]
     He Huaxian, a disease control official in Hunan’s plague-afflicted Yueyang county, denied a report in Information Times which said that trucks loaded with live rats from Hunan were headed for a local Guangzhou market, the China Daily reported on Tuesday.

   • 2011, Frank Dikötter, Mao's Great Famine‎^[5], Bloomsbury, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 170:

     In Yueyang county, Hunan, some 22,000 people lost their homes during the building of Tieshan Reservoir.

Synonyms

• (historical) Yochow

Translations

prefecture-level city or county of Hunan, China

• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 岳陽／岳阳 (ngok⁶ joeng⁴)

  Mandarin: 岳陽／岳阳 (Yuèyáng)

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Yueyang”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[6], volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 3537, column 3