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Chongyang

Syllables: Chong·yang/t͡ʃɔŋˈjæŋ/

Chongyang proper noun: a county of Xianning, Hubei, China.

Proper noun

Chongyang

  1. A county of Xianning, Hubei, China.
    • In Hupei, clan schools recorded in local gazetteers amounted to 23 percent of the schools in Huang-kang county, and from 27 to 47 percent of those in Ch'ung-yang county.[1979, Evelyn Rawski, “The Availability of Elementary Education”, in Education and Popular Literacy in Ch’ing China, Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 87
    • In the far south-east, Chongyang County had over 5,000 Christians by 1992 meeting in twelve “spontaneous meeting-points” (i.e. house churches) according to the TSPM.1999, Tony Lambert, “A survey of church growth, province by province”, in China's Christian Millions, Monarch Books, published 2006, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 252

Forms of Chongyang

alternative formChungyang

Origin of Chongyang

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 崇陽 /崇阳 (Chóngyáng).

Questions about Chongyang

What does Chongyang mean?
Chongyang means a county of Xianning, Hubei, China.
What part of speech is Chongyang?
Chongyang is a proper noun.
How do you pronounce Chongyang?
Chongyang is pronounced /t͡ʃɔŋˈjæŋ/.

Words near Chongyang in the dictionary

  1. Chongs
  2. Chongshing
  3. Chongtham
  4. chonguri
  5. Chongxin
  6. Chongyang
  7. Chongzuo
  8. Choni
  9. chonies
  10. chonite
  11. chonites

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