Gongyi
See also: gōngyì
English
Etymology
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation of 鞏義/巩义 (Gǒngyì).
Proper noun
Gongyi
- A county-level city in Zhengzhou, Henan, China.
- 2015, Damian Harper, et al., China (Lonely Planet), →ISBN, OCLC 466628214, page 432:
- Gongyi City (Gǒngyì Shì), formerly called Gongxian County, is between Zhèngzhōu and Luòyáng and is home to a fascinating series of Buddhist caves and tombs built by the Northern Song emperors (c AD 517). More than 7700 Buddhist figures populate 256 shrines.
- 2021 July 20, Woo, Ryan, “Dozen central Chinese cities under water as river banks burst”, in Nick Macfie, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 20 July 2021:
- "This is the heaviest rain since I was born, with so many familiar places flooded," said an internet user in the inundated city of Gongyi on Chinese social media.
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Translations
county-level city
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