Han-yang
See also: Hanyang
English
Map including HAN-YANG 漢陽 (AMS, 1953)
Etymology
From the Wade–Giles romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 漢陽 (Han⁴-yang²).[1]
Proper noun
Han-yang
- Alternative form of Hanyang
- 1929, William Robson, Griffith John of Hankow (Bright Biographies Series), Pickering & Inglis, OCLC 10635976, page 64:
- Lying on the right bank of the Yang-tse, opposite the departmental city of Han-yang and near to Hankow, its walls are about ten miles in circumference, and its population is about four hundred thousand.
- 1968, “HUPEH”, in Encyclopedia Britannica, volume 11, LCCN 68-10064, OCLC 1036882, page 902, column 1:
- Commercially, Wu-han (Hankow, Wu-ch'ang and Han-yang) municipality commands the gateway to the Szechwan basin in the west and to Hunan and Kweichow in the south and southwest. Ocean-going steamships reach Wu-han and transport products to Shanghai and abroad. Across the Han river bridge from Hankow is the heavy-industry centre of Han-yang. From the latter runs the great bridge across the Yangtze joining Hankow and the provincial seat of Wu-ch'ang.
- 1973, Roderick Stewart, Bethune, General Publishing Co. Ltd., published 1975, →ISBN, OCLC 3017281, OL 4598171M, page 121:
- They were willingly accepted for surgical duties in the Presbyterian mission hospital in the neighbouring city of Han-yang.
- 1975, Wu-han (Briefs on Selected PRC Cities), Central Intelligence Agency, page 4:
- Han-yang is the smallest of the three cities. It was founded about A.D. 600 but, like neighboring Han-k'ou, remained relatively unimportant until the last half of the 19th century.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Han-yang.
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Translations
Hanyang — see Hanyang
References
- Hanyang, Wade-Giles romanization Han-yang, in Encyclopædia Britannica
Further reading
- “Han-yang”, in Collins English Dictionary.
- Han-yang at OneLook Dictionary Search
- “Han-yang” in TheFreeDictionary.com, Huntingdon Valley, Pa.: Farlex, Inc., 2003–2023.