Liaoyang

Liaoyang

See also: liáoyǎng and Liáoyáng

English

Alternative forms

• (from Wade–Giles) Liao-yang

Etymology

Borrowed from Mandarin 遼陽／辽阳 (Liáoyáng).

Proper noun

Liaoyang

1. A prefecture-level city in Liaoning, China.
   • 1895 April, “Editorial Paragraphs”, in The Missionary Herald‎, volume XCI, number IV, OCLC 416582686, page 130:

     It was just such a mob as this, started by undisciplined soldiers, which resulted in the death of Rev. Mr. Wylie, of the Scotch United Presbyterian Mission, at Liaoyang.

   • 2018 July 22, Chen, Aizhu, “China's CNPC starts test runs at new crude unit in Liaoyang for Russian oil”, in Gopakumar Warrier, editor, Reuters‎, archived from the original on 14 May 2022, Commodities News:

     * China’s top state energy group CNPC has started test runs at a new crude unit in subsidiary plant in Liaoyang that’s designated to process Russian crude oil, the group said on Monday […]
     * Reuters has reported Liaoyang was expected to become a main Russian oil processor under CNPC from end of this year after a major upgrade. For now, CNPC’s Dalian refinery is taking most of the increased supplies of Russian crude from the East Siberian Pacific Ocean pipeline (ESPO).

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Liaoyang.

Translations

prefecture-level city of Liaoning, China

Chinese: Mandarin: 遼陽／辽阳 (zh) (Liáoyáng)

Further reading

• “Liaoyang”, in Collins English Dictionary.
• Liaoyang in Encyclopædia Britannica
• “Liaoyang”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
• Liaoyang at OneLook Dictionary Search
• “Liaoyang” in TheFreeDictionary.com, Huntingdon Valley, Pa.: Farlex, Inc., 2003–2023.