Xianyang
See also: xiǎnyáng
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 咸陽 (Xiányáng).
Proper noun
Xianyang
- A prefecture-level city in Shaanxi, China.
- [1998, Chris Peers, “Shih Huang-Ti — The Tiger of Ch'in”, in Warlords of China 700 BC to AD 1662, Arms and Armour Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, 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.]
- 2023 August 29, Li Yuan, “She Rose From Poverty as China Prospered. Then It Made Her Poor Again.”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 29 August 2023, China's Economy:
- Weeks after her release, a court would seize her two-bedroom apartment in Xianyang in Shaanxi Province and her Toyota Camry because she was insolvent, and put her on a national blacklist. She can no longer book a hotel room or a plane ticket, or take out a loan.
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Further reading
- Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Xianyang”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World, volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 3501, column 3
- Xianyang, Hsien-yang, Hsienyang at Google Ngram Viewer
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