Yunyang

See also: Yün-yang

English

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Etymology 1

From Mandarin 鄖陽郧阳 (Yúnyáng).

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Yunyang

  1. A district of Shiyan, Hubei, China.
    • [1995, Thompson, Roger R., “Notes”, in China's Local Councils in the Age of Constitutional Reform, 1898-1911, Harvard University Press, →ISBN, LCCN 94-49385, OCLC 31867534, page 200:
      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.]
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Etymology 2

From Mandarin 雲陽云阳 (Yúnyáng).

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Yunyang

  1. A county of Chongqing, China.
    • 1913, Ernest Henry Wilson, A Naturalist in Western China, volume II, London: Methuen & Co., OCLC 900871733, page 120:
      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.
    • 1975 March 27, Summary of World Broadcasts: The Far East, OCLC 53864202, page 16:
      SZECHWAN The 17th March 'Szechwan Daily' published a report and editorial note about how cadres of (Shachu) commune in Yunyang County had persisted in participation in manual labour so as to "restrict bourgeois rights and []
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