Xingyang

See also: Xíngyáng

English

Alternative forms

• Hsing-yang (Wade–Giles)

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 滎陽／荥阳 (Xíngyáng).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʃɪŋˈjæŋ/

Proper noun

Xingyang

1. A county-level city in Zhengzhou, Henan, China.
   • [1979 February, Chao Chien, “The Chin Dynasty: Unified Fedual Rule”, in China Reconstructs‎^[1], volume XXVIII, number 2, China Welfare Institute, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 63:

     Wu Kuang, who had been leading another army in an attack at Hsingyang (west of present-day Chengchow in Honan province), a strategic town held by the Chin forces, was killed by a subordinate officer.]

   • [1985, Jürgen Domes, “Social Developments and Problems”, in The Government and Politics of the PRC: A Time of Transition‎^[2], Westview Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 216:

     Only the teams continued to function as production units, but for them, the pre-1958 term "agricultural production cooperative" was now used again.⁶⁹ Similar provisions were suggested in a statement made by the secretary of the district (ti-ch'ü) PC of Hsingyang in Honan,⁷⁰ a move that seems particularly delicate because the district of Hsingyang includes Suip'ing hsien, where, in mid-April 1958, the first people's commune in China had been established.]

   • 2013 December 26, Didi Kirsten Tatlow, “Homeowner’s ‘Cannons’ Warn Demolition Teams: No Closer”, in The New York Times‎^[3], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 20 October 2022, Sinosphere‎^[4]:

     With hundreds of homes around him demolished, and fearing for his own, Zhou Jianbang, a man in Xingyang city, Henan Province, has built a half-dozen black “cannons” and stationed them around his house as warning to demolition teams to stay away, a state-run news agency reported.

   • 2021 July 29, “Death toll jumps to 99 in flooding in central China”, in AP News‎^[5], sourced from BEIJING (AP), archived from the original on July 30, 2021‎^[6]:

     The death toll has jumped to 99 from floods that hit a province in central China last week, authorities said Thursday.
     An official in Zhengzhou, the capital of Henan province, announced 26 more deaths in two outlying areas, state media reported. Of them, 18 were to the southwest in Xinmi city, and eight to the west in Xingyang city.

Translations

county-level city in central China

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 滎陽／荥阳 (zh) (Xíngyáng)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can