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Shouyang

Syllables: Shou·yang

Shouyang proper noun: a county of Jinzhong, Shanxi, China.

Proper noun

Shouyang

  1. A county of Jinzhong, Shanxi, China.
    • Three American missionaries were reported today to have disappeared from Shouyang in East Shansi Province. They have not been seen since the night of Dec. 2, when they left the mission to visit a friend.1937 December 14, “AMERICANS VANISH IN CHINA; Missionaries Not Seen Since Leaving Japanese-Held Town”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 06 Aug 2023, page 23
    • The article looked at the situation in Shouyang county, adjacent to Hsiyang county, Shansi, home of Tachai. Shouyang, according to Red Flag, had failed to benefit from proximity to China's agricultural pace-setter, for class enemies[…]1974, Current Scene: Developments in Mainland China, volumes 12-13, →OCLC, page 17, column 2

Examples of Shouyang in a sentence

  • He was Prefect of Shouyang County in Shanxi Province.1998, Xiao-meng Qin, “The Qin Clan”, in Heartbeats and Heartaches: Memoirs of an Intellectual Family in China, 1stBooks Library, published...
  • Using examples from Shouyang county in Shanxi province, this paper discusses the concepts of locality in both official and local sources, especially in the context of financing local cults.2017, Luo Weiwei [羅娓娓], “Locality and Temple Fundraising in Northern Qing China”, in Hsun Chang [張珣], Benjamin Perry [裴凝], editors...

Origin of Shouyang

From Mandarin 壽陽 /寿阳.

Questions about Shouyang

What does Shouyang mean?
Shouyang means a county of Jinzhong, Shanxi, China.
How do you use Shouyang in a sentence?
He was Prefect of Shouyang County in Shanxi Province.
What part of speech is Shouyang?
Shouyang is a proper noun.

Words near Shouyang in the dictionary

  1. shouts from the rooftops
  2. shouts out
  3. shouts the odds
  4. shouts-out
  5. shouty
  6. Shouyang
  7. shovable
  8. shovavim
  9. shove
  10. shove about
  11. shove around

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