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Hsiang-yang

Hsiang-yang is the alternative form of Xiangyang.

Meaning of Xiangyang

Proper noun (1)

Xiangyang

  1. A district of Hegang, Heilongjiang, China.

Proper noun (2)

Xiangyang

  1. A prefecture-level city of Hubei, China.
    • On conferring with the great pioneer, Dr. Griffith John, they were advised to locate in Northwest Hupeh. Accordingly, in the spring of 1892, Mr. H. N. Ronning and Mr. D. Nelson, together with Mr. P. Matson of the Swedish American Mission Covenant, and Mr. J. B. Brandtzaeg of the China Mission...[1934, “The History of the Lutheran United Mission”, in White Unto Harvest in China: A Survey of the Lutheran United Mission, the China Mission of the N.L.C.A., 1890-1934, →OCLC, page 14

Origin of Hsiang-yang

From the Wade–Giles romanization of the Mandarin 襄陽 /襄阳 (Hsiang¹-yang²).

Questions about Hsiang-yang

What is Hsiang-yang the alternative form of?
Hsiang-yang is the alternative form of Xiangyang.

Words near Hsiang-yang in the dictionary

  1. Hsian
  2. Hsiang
  3. Hsiang Kang
  4. Hsiang-ch'eng
  5. Hsiang-t'an
  6. Hsiang-yang
  7. Hsiangfen
  8. hsianghualite
  9. Hsiangtan
  10. Hsiao
  11. Hsiao-chuan

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Hsiang-yang (page history and authors); Xiangyang (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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