Dangyang

See also: dàngyàng

English

Alternative forms

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

  1. 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.

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References

  1. ^ 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

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