Yangzi

Yangzi

See also: yàngzi

English

Etymology 1

The atonal Hanyu Pinyin[1] romanization of the Mandarin pronunciation of 揚子／扬子 (Yángzǐ).

Proper noun

Yangzi

1. (uncommon) Alternative spelling of Yangtze
   • 1975, Goldwasser, Janet; Stuart Dowty, Huan-Ying: Worker's China‎, Monthly Review Press, →ISBN Invalid ISBN, LCCN 74-7790, OCLC 471721488, page 252:

     The only armed guards we saw in China were army and militia sentries on duty at public buildings or other important structures, such as the bridge across the Yangzi River at Wuhan.

   • 2008, China (Eyewitness Travel Guides)‎, Dorling Kindersley, →ISBN, OCLC 438732339, page 23:

     Intensively cultivated and denuded of natural vegetation, the huge lowland flood-plains of major rivers, notably the Yellow and Yangzi, are a seemingly endless patchwork of fields.

   • 2008, Adeline Yen Mah, China: Land of Dragons and Emperors‎, Allen & Unwin, →ISBN, OCLC 426122042, OL 32085311M, page 70:

     Finally, he built the 2000-kilometre (1200-mile) Grand Canal which linked the Yangzi River in the south to the Yellow River in the north.

Alternative forms

• Yanzi (misspelling)

References

1. “Selected Glossary”, in The Cambridge Encyclopedia of China‎, Cambridge University Press, 1982, →ISBN, LCCN 79-42627, OCLC 781411242, pages 476, 487: “The glossary includes a selection of names and terms from the text in the Wade-Giles transliteration, followed by Pinyin, […] Yang-tzu river (Yangzi) 揚子”

Etymology 2

Map including Yang-tzu (Yangzi) (DMA, 1985)

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 洋梓 (Yángzǐ).

Proper noun

Yangzi

1. A town in Zhongxiang, Jingmen, Hubei, China.
   • 2001 December 17, “Brief report on the financial loss of the church in Hubei”, in Congressional-Executive Commission on China‎, archived from the original on September 23, 2014‎:

     Liu Cuilan at Bailing Village of Yangzi Town in Zhongxiang city has a large house of 140 meters² (about 1506 ft².) for the [Christians] gatherings, which was torn down by the policemen from Yingzhong police station in August 2001.

2. A residentialcommunity in Yangzi, Zhongxiang, Jingmen, Hubei, China.
3. A village in Yangzi, Zhongxiang, Jingmen, Hubei, China.

Alternative forms

• Yang-tzu, Yang-tzŭ (obs.)

Translations

a town in central China; a residential community in central China; a village in central China

Chinese: Mandarin: 洋梓 (Yángzǐ)

Anagrams

• Ziyang