Shayang
See also: shāyáng
English
Alternative forms
- (from Wade–Giles) Sha-yang
Etymology
From the postal romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 沙洋 (Shāyáng).
Proper noun
Shayang
- A county of Jingmen, Hubei, China.
- 1910 November 11, “Flood Disaster in the Han Valley”, in Victoria Daily Colonist, volume CIII, number 289, Victoria, British Columbia, ISSN 0839-427X, page 14:
- But the greatest catastrophe has befallen the neighborhood of Shayang, about 110 miles higher up the river.
- [1911 March 4, “Trampled to Death in Rush for Food”, in New York Times, volume LX, number 19,397, page 4:
- Sha-yang is in the centre of Hupeh and; 120 miles west of Hankow, and has a population of about 60,000.]
- 2020 February 21, “China reports uptick in new coronavirus cases, South Korea infections spike”, in France 24, archived from the original on 21 February 2020:
- An official newspaper in Hubei reported 230 cases at the Wuhan Women's Prison, whose warden was dismissed, and 41 others at another penitentiary in Shayang county.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Shayang.
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- A town in Shayang, Jingmen, Hubei, China.
Translations
county and town in central China
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Anagrams
- Yaghans, Yahgans