Shaoyang

English

Etymology

From Mandarin 邵陽 / 邵阳 (Shàoyáng).

Pronunciation

  • enPR: shouʹyängʹ[1]
  • Hyphenation: Shao‧yang

Proper noun

Shaoyang

  1. A prefecture-level city of Hunan, China.
    • 1939 February 4, C. Y. W. [孟長泳] Meng, “China Fights and Rebuilds Simultaneously”, in The China Weekly Review‎[2], volume 87, number 10, →OCLC, pages 298–299:
      Top, left, weighing shed of a surface coal mine in Shaoyang, southwestern Hunan.[...]The Executive Yuan is understood to be planting the establishment of three “national industrial defence lines,” namely, a northwestern line with headquarters in Paochi, a southwestern line with headquarters in Shaoyang, and a southeastern line in Kiangchow.
    • 2010 June 13, David Barboza, “In China, Unlikely Labor Leader Just Wanted a Middle-Class Life”, in The New York Times‎[3], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 31 January 2013, Global Business‎[4]:
      Mr. Tan’s journey from migrant worker to labor organizer began in a small farming community near the city of Shaoyang, in central China’s Hunan Province, where Mao Zedong was born.
    • 2021 June 9, “Quirky China: Nude chat scam hits fully-clothed man, woman gives birth in street, and quadruplets thank hospital for lives”, in AP News‎[5], archived from the original on 25 August 2022‎[6]:
      The four high school graduates were born in a small city of Shaoyang in central China’s Hunan province in 2003, but were transferred to a major regional hospital almost immediately because of their unstable vital signs, reported the Xiaoxiang Morning Herald.

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References

  1. ^ Leon E. Seltzer, editor (1952), “Shaoyang”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World‎[1], Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 1745, column 1

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