Xinyang
Syllables: Xin·yang
Xinyang proper noun: a prefecture-level city of Henan, China.
Proper noun
Xinyang
- A prefecture-level city of Henan, China.
- In Henan’s Xinyang prefecture, one of the worst affected areas in the country, the Party Secretary Lu Xianwen would travel to local communes and order in advance elaborate banquets of twenty-four courses, according to Party documents. Only at the village level did the lowest officials such as...1996, Jasper Becker, “An Overview of the Famine”, in Hungry Ghosts: Mao's Secret Famine, The Free Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 104
- Mr. Xi bowed in tribute at a memorial for 130,000 fighters from this area in central China who gave their lives for the Communist cause. But the estimated one million peasants who starved to death in Xinyang, after Mao’s Great Leap Forward spawned the biggest famine in modern times, went unnoted in...2019 September 30, Chris Buckley, “Xi Extols China’s ‘Red’ Heritage in a Land Haunted by Famine Under Mao”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 09 Jun 2023, Asia Pacific
Xinyang meaning in Vietnamese
Xinyang in Vietnamese
- a city in China
- Tín Dương
Forms of Xinyang
| alternative form | Hsin-yang |
|---|---|
| alternative form | Hsinyang |
Origin of Xinyang
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 信陽 /信阳 (Xìnyáng).
Questions about Xinyang
- What does Xinyang mean?
- Xinyang means a prefecture-level city of Henan, China.
- What is Xinyang in Vietnamese?
- Xinyang in Vietnamese is Tín Dương. See Xinyang meaning in Vietnamese.
- What part of speech is Xinyang?
- Xinyang is a proper noun.
Words near Xinyang in the dictionary
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