Huanggang
English
Alternative forms
- (postal romanization) Hwangkang
- (from Wade–Giles) Huang-kang, Huangkang
Etymology
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 黃岡／黄冈 (Huánggāng).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈhwɑŋ ɡɑŋ/
Proper noun
Huanggang
- A prefecture-level city in Hubei, China.
- 2020 December 30, Kang, Dake Kang; Sam McNeil; Maria Cheng, “China clamps down in hidden hunt for coronavirus origins”, in AP News, archived from the original on 30 December 2020:
- These enormous gaps in the research aren’t due just to a lack of testing but also to a lack of transparency. Internal data obtained by the AP shows that by Feb. 6, the Hubei CDC had tested over 100 samples in Huanggang, a city southeast of Wuhan. But the results have not been made public.
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Translations
prefecture-level city in central China
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Further reading
- Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Huanggang”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World, volume 2, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, LCCN 98-071262, OCLC 164337564, page 1322, column 3