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Heyang

Syllables: He·yang

Heyang proper noun: a county of Weinan, Shaanxi, China.

Proper noun

Heyang

  1. A county of Weinan, Shaanxi, China.
    • The most direct road from Hanch'eng to Hsian lies through the cities of T'ungchou Fu and Weinan Hsien across the plains along the Yellow River, but we followed a slightly longer route further north across the loess uplands via Hoyang, Ch'engch'eng, P'uch'eng, Fup'ing, and Sanyuan, a week's journey...[1921, Eric Teichman, Travels of a Consular Officer in North-West China, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →OCLC, pages 79–80
    • As a result, some 1,000 activists in reading Chairman Mao's works have emerged in Hoyang County, Shensi Province.[1966 January 26 [1966 January 19], “Local Areas Improve War Veterans' Treatment”, in Daily Report, Foreign Radio Broadcasts, number 18, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Peking...

Forms of Heyang

alternative formHo-yang

Origin of Heyang

From Mandarin 合陽 /合阳.

Questions about Heyang

What does Heyang mean?
Heyang means a county of Weinan, Shaanxi, China.
What part of speech is Heyang?
Heyang is a proper noun.

Words near Heyang in the dictionary

  1. hey ya
  2. hey-diddle-diddle
  3. hey-o
  4. heya
  5. heyagashira
  6. Heyang
  7. Heyboer
  8. Heyboers
  9. Heybridge
  10. Heyburn
  11. Heydarabad

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