Yingde
English
Alternative forms
- Ying-te, Ying-tê (Wade–Giles)
Etymology
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 英德 (Yīngdé).
Proper noun
Yingde
- A county-level city in Guangdong, China.
- [1945 January 26, “Japanese Take Yingtak; McClure Is Transferred”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 03 December 2023, page 9:
- Japanese forces in a three-pronged drive to strengthen their corridor bisecting China have taken Yingtak and are being engaged eighteen miles south of Kuoming, provisional capital of […]]
- 2016 September 26, Nicholas Bakalar, “Ringing Up a New Species of Crab”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 24 October 2022, SCIENCE:
- A previously unknown freshwater crab has been discovered in plain sight: on sale at a pet shop in China.
The shop owner led scientists to the place where the crab had been collected, in Yingde City in northern Guangdong, a subtropical province on the coast of the South China Sea.
Further reading
- Leon E. Seltzer, editor (1952), “Yingtak”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World, Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 2124, column 2
- Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Yingde”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World, volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 3528, column 2
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