Anyang
See also: anyang, ānyǎng, Ānyáng, and An-yang
English
Alternative forms
- (from Wade–Giles) An-yang, An-Yang
Etymology
From the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 安陽／安阳 (Ānyáng).
Proper noun
Anyang
- A prefecture-level city in Henan, China.
- 1936, Herrlee Glessner Creel, “Notes on Professors Karlgren's System for Dating Chinese Bronzes”, in Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, Stephen Austin and Sons, page 463:
- Research on the oracle bones, scientific excavations at Anyang and elsewhere, and other investigations and discoveries have not served merely to thow light on the civilization of late Shang and early Chou times.
- 1977 August 14, “HK magazine: pol. prisoners killed by Reds”, in Free China Weekly, volume XVIII, number 32, Taipei, ISSN 0016-0318, OCLC 1786626, page 1:
- The Hongkong-published magazine quoted "Chinese-speaking travelers" who witnessed part of the event in Anyang, a coal-mining center in Honan province, on Aug. 2.
- 1995 March, Joseph E. Boling, “Far East”, in Numismatic Literature, number 133, →ISBN, ISSN 0029-6031, OCLC 804504444, page 42:
- The discovery of Anyang square foot spade coin molds near Pao-t'ou in Inner Mongolia leads the author through a literature search for the several Anyang place names; he concludes that the disocvery[sic – meaning discovery] location once bore that name and is the probable source of the coins.
- 2012 [February 1, 2000], Jiang, Zemin, “Correctly Guide the Healthy Growth of Young People”, in Selected Works of Jiang Zemin, volume II, Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, →ISBN, OCLC 902829440, page 579:
- Today’s Guangming Daily also reports that in Anyang, Henan Province, the father of a student brought a gang to school to beat up a class teacher because their son was neither assessed as being a student of merit nor elected captain of his school’s Young Pioneers detachment. Reports like this, which have also appeared in the past, are shocking and have caused me to reflect deeply.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Anyang.
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- A county of Anyang, Henan, China.
- A town in Hubei, China.
Translations
a city in Henan, China
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