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Yandang

Syllables: Yan·dang

Yandang proper noun: a town in Yueqing, Wenzhou, Zhejiang, China.

Proper noun

Yandang

  1. A town in Yueqing, Wenzhou, Zhejiang, China.
  2. A nearby mountain.
    • Yandang Mountain is situated in Leqing County, Zhejiang. The leading peak, Yanhugang (Wild Goose Lake Peak), lies 3432 ft. (1046 m) above sea level.2004, Treasures of China, Reader's Digest, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 255, column 1
    • Earlier this week, groups of travelers climbing Yandang Mountain in eastern China were stuck partway up a cliff, clinging to a rope along a fixed climbing route, for more than an hour.2024 May 7, Lilit Marcus, Wayne Chang, “Chinese climbers stuck on cliff for more than an hour due to overcrowding”, in CNN, archived from the original on 07 May 2024, Travel
  3. The surrounding range of mountains.

Forms of Yandang

alternative formYentang

Origin of Yandang

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 雁蕩 /雁荡 (Yàndàng, literally “Wild Goose Pond”).

Questions about Yandang

What does Yandang mean?
Yandang means a town in Yueqing, Wenzhou, Zhejiang, China.
What part of speech is Yandang?
Yandang is a proper noun.

Words near Yandang in the dictionary

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  2. yancopins
  3. Yancy
  4. Yancys
  5. Yanda
  6. Yandang
  7. Yandas
  8. Yandell
  9. Yandells
  10. yander
  11. yandere

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