Zaoyang
See also: zāoyāng
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 棗陽／枣阳 (Zǎoyáng).
Pronunciation
- enPR: dzouʹyängʹ[1]
Proper noun
Zaoyang
- A county-level city in Xiangyang, Hubei, China.
- [1929 November 23, “Government Faced with Triple War Threat”, in The China Weekly Review, volume L, number 12, →OCLC, page 468, column 1:
- “It is stated that a general drive against the Kuominchun invaders has already started from Tsaoyang, in North Hupeh, near the Hunan border, and General Liu Shih, the Wuhan garrison commander, expresses con- fidence that his forces, 100,000 in number, are adequate to deal with the situation.]
Translations
References
- Leon E. Seltzer, editor (1952), “Tsaoyang”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World, Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 1952, column 1
Further reading
- Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Zaoyang”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World, volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 3551, column 3
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