Chongyang

English

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 崇陽／崇阳 (Chóngyáng).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t͡ʃɔŋˈjæŋ/, /-ˈjɑŋ/

Proper noun

Chongyang

1. A county of Xianning, Hubei, China.
   • [1976, Compilation Group for the "History of Modern China" Series [《中国近代史丛书》编写组], “Expansion of the War”, in The Opium War [鸦片战争]‎^[1], Peking: Foreign Languages Press, →OCLC, page 71:

     At the beginning of 1842, a secret society uprising led by Chung Jen-chieh broke out in Chungyang County, Hupeh Province.]

   • [1979, Evelyn Rawski, “The Availability of Elementary Education”, in Education and Popular Literacy in Ch’ing China‎^[2], Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 87‎^[3]:

     In Hupei, clan schools recorded in local gazetteers amounted to 23 percent of the schools in Huang-kang county, and from 27 to 47 percent of those in Ch'ung-yang county.]

   • 1999, Tony Lambert, “A survey of church growth, province by province”, in China's Christian Millions‎^[4], Monarch Books, published 2006, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 252:

     In the far south-east, Chongyang County had over 5,000 Christians by 1992 meeting in twelve “spontaneous meeting-points” (i.e. house churches) according to the TSPM.

   • 2020 May 20, “ZTE And WIMI’s Launching of 5G Holographic Cloud Interview with The Same Screen Makes Black Technology Into Reality”, in AP News‎^[5], archived from the original on 01 April 2023‎^[6]:

     According to the video released by Xinhua news agency, the picture of the same screen in different places is quite realistic, and the interaction process does not feel the delay, and the movements and expressions are quite smooth and natural. “It’s a strange, magical feeling.” Cheng Ju, deputy to the National People’s Congress and party branch secretary of Dazhi Village, Chongyang County, Hubei province, said. During the interview in Wuhan, she shook hands with Cheng Gong, a reporter from the Xinhua news agency in Beijing.

Translations

county

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 崇陽／崇阳 (zh) (Chóngyáng)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (2008), “Chongyang”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[7], 2nd edition, volume 1, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 792, column 2

Anagrams

• Yongchang