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Yangjiang

Syllables: Yang·jiang

Yangjiang proper noun: a prefecture-level city in southwestern Guangdong, China, formerly a county.

Proper noun

Yangjiang

  1. A prefecture-level city in southwestern Guangdong, China, formerly a county.
    • The party committee of (Takung) commune in Yangchiang County has reemployed a number of secretaries of the production brigade party branches who were sacked by the gang of four.[1978 May 2 [1978 April 30], “Kwangtung Commune Reemploys Gang of Four Victims”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China, volume I, number 85, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from...
    • The ship was discovered by an Anglo-Chinese team in 1987 off the coast of Yangjiang city near Guangzhou, buried in silt beneath 100ft of water, but it has taken 20 years to be salvaged.2007 December 23, Tom Pattinson, “Salvaged junk opens up secrets of ‘marine silk road’”, in The Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 25 Dec 2022
    Synonyms:
    Yeungkong

Synonyms of Yangjiang

Forms of Yangjiang

alternative formYang-chiang

Origin of Yangjiang

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 陽江／阳江 (Yángjiāng).

Questions about Yangjiang

What does Yangjiang mean?
Yangjiang means a prefecture-level city in southwestern Guangdong, China, formerly a county.
What part of speech is Yangjiang?
Yangjiang is a proper noun.

Words near Yangjiang in the dictionary

  1. Yangikent
  2. yanging
  3. yangire
  4. yangires
  5. yangite
  6. Yangjiang
  7. Yangjingbang
  8. yangko
  9. Yangku
  10. Yangling
  11. Yangluo

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