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Ziyang

Syllables: Zi·yang

Ziyang proper noun: a prefecture-level city of Sichuan, China.

Proper noun (1)

Ziyang

  1. A prefecture-level city of Sichuan, China.
    • An official at the health bureau of the Sichuan Province city of Ziyang, one of the places where the disease was found, discounted reports that it could be Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome, but he declined to elaborate.[…]
    • As of Saturday, 58 people were suspected to have the disease in the neighboring cities of Ziyang and Neijiang, the Sichuan health department said in a statement.2005 July 26, “New disease is not SARS, China says”, in The New York Times, sourced from BEIJING, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 30 Aug 2023, Health
  2. A district of Yiyang, Hunan, China.

Proper noun (2)

Ziyang

  1. A county of Ankang, Shaanxi, China.
    • When Tzuyang county in the Tapa Mountains in Shensi province was launching a movement to build irrigation works, the county's art troupe was visiting the Lienho commune. When they saw how hard the commune members worked to dig tunnels through the mountains to bring water from the Pan River for...[1975 November, “Shoulder-pole Art Troupes”, in China Reconstructs, volume XXIV, number 11, China Welfare Institute, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 24, column 3
    • The Se content of liver in Ziyang County, Shaanxi Province, was significantly high, with a mean level of 3.30 = 1.21 ppm (dry matter), and serious Se intoxication in animals and human beings has occurred.1987, Xu-Jiu Zhai, Yao-Hua Cheng, Yu-Wen Wang, Xiao-Fen Yan, Yun Cai, Zhi-Ming Qi, Tai Gao, “Selenium Contents of Swine Liver in China”, in Gerald F. Combs, Jr., Orville A. Levander, Julian E....
  2. A subdistrict of Wuchang district, Wuhan, Hubei, China.

Forms of Ziyang

alternative formTzeyang
alternative formTzu-yang
alternative formTzŭ-yang

Origin of Ziyang

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 資陽 /资阳 (Zīyáng).

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 紫陽 /紫阳 (Zǐyáng).

Questions about Ziyang

What does Ziyang mean?
Ziyang means a prefecture-level city of Sichuan, China.
What part of speech is Ziyang?
Ziyang is a proper noun.

Words near Ziyang in the dictionary

  1. zivania
  2. zive
  3. zives
  4. Zivic
  5. Ziyad
  6. Ziyang
  7. ziyara
  8. ziyaras
  9. ziyarat
  10. ziyarats
  11. Ziyuan

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