Jieyang
See also: Jiēyáng
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 揭陽/揭阳 (Jiēyáng).
Proper noun
Jieyang
- A prefecture-level city in Guangdong, China.
- [1985, Fernando Galbiati, “New Roles for the Rural Tradition”, in P'eng P'ai and the Hai-Lu-Feng Soviet, Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 229:
- One example of this power came the following month, when P’eng arranged a worker-peasant demonstration in Chiehyang to secure the release of Yang Shih-hun, a CCP labor leader arrested there.]
- 2022 September 2, Aizhu Chen, “PetroChina builds major storage for new south China refinery - report”, in Reuters, archived from the original on 08 March 2023:
- The tank farm, part of a new complex in the city of Jieyang, has storage of 3.8 million cubic meters, with 2 million cubic metres (12.6 million barrels) allotted for crude, it said, citing project operator PetroChina Guangdong Petrochemical.
Synonyms
- (from Cantonese) Kityang
Translations
Further reading
- Jieyang, Chieh-yang, Kityang at Google Ngram Viewer
- Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Jieyang”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World, volume 2, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1448, column 1
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