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Jieyang

Syllables: Jie·yang

Jieyang proper noun: a prefecture-level city of Guangdong, China.

Proper noun

Jieyang

  1. A prefecture-level city of Guangdong, China.
    • One example of this power came the following month, when P’eng arranged a worker-peasant demonstration in Chiehyang to secure the release of Yang Shih-hun, a CCP labor leader arrested there.[1985, Fernando Galbiati, “New Roles for the Rural Tradition”, in P'eng P'ai and the Hai-Lu-Feng Soviet, Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 229
    • The tank farm, part of a new complex in the city of Jieyang, has storage of 3.8 million cubic meters, with 2 million cubic metres (12.6 million barrels) allotted for crude, it said, citing project operator PetroChina Guangdong Petrochemical.2022 September 2, Chen Aizhu, “PetroChina builds major storage for new south China refinery - report”, in Reuters, archived from the original on 08 Mar 2023
    Synonyms:
    Kityang

Synonyms of Jieyang

Forms of Jieyang

alternative formChieh-yang

Origin of Jieyang

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 揭陽/揭阳 (Jiēyáng).

Questions about Jieyang

What does Jieyang mean?
Jieyang means a prefecture-level city of Guangdong, China.
What part of speech is Jieyang?
Jieyang is a proper noun.

Words near Jieyang in the dictionary

  1. jie jie
  2. jiedushi
  3. Jiefang
  4. Jiexi
  5. Jiexiu
  6. Jieyang
  7. Jieznas
  8. Jieț
  9. jif
  10. jiff
  11. jiffed

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