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Xingyang

Syllables: Xing·yang/ʃɪŋˈjæŋ/

Xingyang proper noun: a county-level city of Zhengzhou, Henan, China.

Proper noun

Xingyang

  1. A county-level city of Zhengzhou, Henan, China.
    • Wu Kuang, who had been leading another army in an attack at Hsingyang (west of present-day Chengchow in Honan province), a strategic town held by the Chin forces, was killed by a subordinate officer.[1979 February, Chao Chien, “The Chin Dynasty: Unified Fedual Rule”, in China Reconstructs, volume XXVIII, number 2, China Welfare Institute, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 63
    • Only the teams continued to function as production units, but for them, the pre-1958 term "agricultural production cooperative" was now used again.⁶⁹ Similar provisions were suggested in a statement made by the secretary of the district (ti-ch'ü) PC of Hsingyang in Honan,⁷⁰ a move that seems...[1985, Jürgen Domes, “Social Developments and Problems”, in The Government and Politics of the PRC: A Time of Transition, Westview Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 216

Forms of Xingyang

alternative formHsing-yang

Origin of Xingyang

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 滎陽/荥阳 (Xíngyáng).

Questions about Xingyang

What does Xingyang mean?
Xingyang means a county-level city of Zhengzhou, Henan, China.
What part of speech is Xingyang?
Xingyang is a proper noun.
How do you pronounce Xingyang?
Xingyang is pronounced /ʃɪŋˈjæŋ/.

Words near Xingyang in the dictionary

  1. xings
  2. Xingshan
  3. xingshu
  4. Xingtai
  5. Xingu
  6. Xingyang
  7. Xingye
  8. Xingyi
  9. xingzhongite
  10. xingzhongites
  11. Xinhai Revolution

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