Xingyang

See also: Xíngyáng

English

Alternative forms

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, 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, 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, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 20 October 2022, Sinosphere:
      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.

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