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Yiyang

Syllables: Yi·yang

Yiyang proper noun: a county of Shangrao, Jiangxi, China.

Proper noun (1)

Yiyang

  1. A county of Shangrao, Jiangxi, China.

Proper noun (2)

Yiyang

  1. A county of Luoyang, Henan, China.
    • A scene from China’s great drought of 1960. Members of the Sanhsiang people's commune in Yiyang County form a "bucket brigade" to bring water from the Lo River, reduced to a trickle.
      China Reconstructs (Peiping), November 19601961 May [1961 January 22], “China: Re-educating Capitalists”, in East Europe, A Monthly Review of East European Affairs, volume 10, number 5, New York: Free Europe Committee, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 14...
    • Li Ho (790-816), or Li Chang-chi, came from Changku County (present-day Yiyang County) in the province of Honan.1976, Chung Wen, “Legalist Ideas in Li Ho's Poetry”, in Chinese Literature, number 2, Peking: Foreign Languages Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 94

Proper noun (3)

Yiyang

  1. A prefecture-level city of Hunan, China.

Examples of Yiyang in a sentence

  • In 1980, a batch of more than 75 kilograms (about 2,000 pieces) of hollow head spades with slant shoulder and arc foot was excavated at Liuquan Village, Yiyang County, Henan Province².1990, Zhang Jiqi, “The development of denomination systems in early Chinese coins”, in I.A. Carradice, editor, Proceedings of the 10th...
  • Piglets at a farm in Yiyang County in China’s Henan Province.2019 September 10, Alexandra Stevenson, Raymond Zhong, “China’s Pork Prices Soar, Adding to Beijing’s Troubles”, in The New York Times...

Origin of Yiyang

From Mandarin 弋陽 /弋阳 (Yìyáng).

From Mandarin 宜陽 /宜阳 (Yíyáng).

From Mandarin 益陽 /益阳 (Yìyáng).

Questions about Yiyang

What does Yiyang mean?
Yiyang means a county of Shangrao, Jiangxi, China.
How do you use Yiyang in a sentence?
In 1980, a batch of more than 75 kilograms (about 2,000 pieces) of hollow head spades with slant shoulder and arc foot was excavated at Liuquan Village, Yiyang County, Henan Province².
What part of speech is Yiyang?
Yiyang is a proper noun.

Words near Yiyang in the dictionary

  1. Yiwu
  2. Yixing
  3. Yixing ware
  4. Yixing wares
  5. yixunite
  6. Yiyang
  7. Yiyuan
  8. yiz
  9. Yizhou
  10. Yizidi
  11. Yizidism

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