Dangyang
See also: dàngyàng
English
Alternative forms
- Tangyang
- Tang-yang (Wade–Giles)
Etymology
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 當陽 / 当阳 (Dāngyáng).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /dæŋ.jæŋ/, /dɑŋ.jɑŋ/
- enPR: dängʹyängʹ[1]
Proper noun
Dangyang
- A county-level city of Yichang, Hubei, China, formerly a county.
- [1958 December, Hsieh Ying-chi, “China's Aim: An Improved Implement For Every Job”, in Indian Farming[2], volume VIII, number 9, New Delhi: Indian Council of Agricultural Research, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 26, columns 2, 3:
- After learning that the Paoma township had begun to transport everything on wheels overnight, the whole of the Tangyang county in the Hupei province followed suit within five days: 13,195 persons in the county offered 13,817 suggestions, 25,742 persons took part in making implements and 1,885 functionaries built 2,488 tools. […]
The Paoma township of the Tangyang county in the Hupeh province gained 160,000 workdays through the campaign.]
- 2016 August 11, Edward Wong, “Explosion at Coal-Fired Plant in Central China Kills at Least 21”, in The New York Times[3], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 11 August 2016, Asia Pacific[4]:
- The deaths and injuries occurred when a high-pressure steam pipe exploded at a plant in the city of Dangyang in Hubei Province, a news website run by the provincial government said.
- 2016 August 11, Beijing Monitoring Desk, “Industrial explosion in central China kills at least 21 -state media”, in Reuters[5], archived from the original on 10 June 2022, Basic Materials[6]:
- An explosion at a plant in central China has killed at least 21 people and injured five, state media reported on Thursday.
The blast happened at a power plant in Dangyang, in the central province of Hubei, on Thursday afternoon, state television said.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Dangyang.
Translations
county-level city in central China
References
- ^ Leon E. Seltzer, editor (1952), “Tangyang”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World[1], Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 1875, column 1
Further reading
- Saul B. Cohen, editor (2008), “Dangyang”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World[7], 2nd edition, volume 1, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 963, column 1