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Yün-yang

Yün-yang is the alternative spelling of Yunyang.

Meaning of Yunyang

Proper noun (1)

Yunyang

  1. A district of Shiyan, Hubei, China.
    • Hubei initiatives included one far from the capital, about 145 miles upriver on the Han at Nanzhang county, where there were self-government educational activities as well as one in Yun county, far away in Hubei’s northwest corner.[1995, Roger R. Thompson, “Notes”, in China's Local Councils in the Age of Constitutional Reform, 1898-1911, Harvard University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 200

Proper noun (2)

Yunyang

  1. A county of Chongqing, China.
    • Styan's Pucrasia occurs in the vicinity of the Yangtsze River from near Kui Chou in Hupeh, westward (at least) as far as Yunyang Hsien, in eastern Szechuan.[...]Near Yunyang Hsien I saw several others in more open rocky ground.1913, Ernest Henry Wilson, A Naturalist in Western China, volume II, London: Methuen & Co., →OCLC, page 120

Origin of Yün-yang

From Mandarin 鄖陽 /郧阳 (Yúnyáng), Wade–Giles romanization: Yün²-yang².

From Mandarin 雲陽 /云阳 (Yúnyáng), Wade–Giles romanization: Yün²-yang².

Questions about Yün-yang

What is Yün-yang the alternative spelling of?
Yün-yang is the alternative spelling of Yunyang.

Words near Yün-yang in the dictionary

  1. yüeh-ch'ins
  2. Yüeh-p'u-hu
  3. Yün-ch'eng
  4. Yün-meng
  5. Yün-nan
  6. Yün-yang
  7. Yünnan
  8. Yıldırım
  9. yōkai
  10. yōkais
  11. yōkan

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