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Fenyang

Syllables: Fen·yang

Fenyang proper noun: a county-level city of Lüliang, Shanxi, China.

Proper noun

Fenyang

  1. A county-level city of Lüliang, Shanxi, China.
    • The walled city of Fenyang, with a population of over 20,000, was a sizable objective. It was the most important Japanese base in this area outside of the provincial capital of Taiyuan itself, and a principal concentration point for the start of large-scale mopping-up operations.1945, Harrison Forman, Report from Red China, New York: Book Find Club, →OCLC, →OL, page 229
    • Hsiung-lien had borrowed 550 taels from Chang Luan and left the original group of four in Fenyang, Shansi, to proceed to Peking to visit his aged mother.1977, Preston M. Torbert, The Chʻing Imperial Household Department: a Study of its Organization and Principal Functions, 1662-1796, Harvard University Press, →OCLC, page 159

Origin of Fenyang

From Mandarin 汾陽 /汾阳 (Fényáng).

Questions about Fenyang

What does Fenyang mean?
Fenyang means a county-level city of Lüliang, Shanxi, China.
What part of speech is Fenyang?
Fenyang is a proper noun.

Words near Fenyang in the dictionary

  1. Fenwick trees
  2. Fenwickian
  3. Fenwicks
  4. Fenxi
  5. fenya
  6. Fenyang
  7. Fenyi
  8. fenyramidol
  9. Feock
  10. feod
  11. feodal

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