Zhengyang

See also: Zhèngyáng

English

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 正陽／正阳 (Zhèngyáng).

Pronunciation

• enPR: jǔngʹyängʹ

Proper noun

Zhengyang

1. A county of Zhumadian, Henan, China.
   • 1994, Mobilizing the Masses: Building Revolution in Henan‎^[2], Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 60:

     In Zhengyang county in May 1923, for instance, local gentry in the southern district built a county militia in response to rampant banditry.

   • 2013 March 20, Liu Dong, “Beggars’ world tour”, in Global Times‎^[3], archived from the original on 26 March 2013‎^[4]:

     An investigation uncovered evidence of an organized crime group. According to police, some 40 local villagers from Zhengyang county in Henan applied for passports in this context over the past three years. Three organizers were soon detained while 21 passports were revoked and 28 people were prevented from leaving the country.

Translations

county

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 正陽／正阳 (zh) (Zhèngyáng)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Zhengyang”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[5], volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 3563, column 3