Xianyang

Xianyang

See also: xiǎnyáng

English

Alternative forms

• (from Wade–Giles) Hsien-yang

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 咸陽／咸阳 (Xiányáng).

Proper noun

Xianyang

1. A prefecture-level city in Shaanxi, China.
   • [1998, Peers, Chris, “Shih Huang-Ti — The Tiger of Ch'in”, in Warlords of China 700 BC to AD 1662‎, Arms and Armour Press, →ISBN, OCLC 491672813, page 62:

     The empire was divided into thirty-six ‘commanderies'. Each of these was controlled by a military and a civil governor, with an imperial inspector charged with overseeing them and reporting back to the Ch’in capital at Hsienyang.]

Translations

prefecture-level city

Chinese: Mandarin: 咸陽 (zh), 咸阳 (zh) (Xiányáng) Japanese: please add this translation if you can