Deyang

English

Alternative forms

• Te-yang (Wade–Giles)

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 德陽 / 德阳 (Déyáng).

Proper noun

Deyang

1. A prefecture-level city in Sichuan, China.
   • 2008 December 22, Edward Wong, “Parents of Schoolchildren Killed in China Quake Confirm Lawsuit”, in The New York Times‎^[1], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 17 November 2013, Asia Pacific‎^[2]:

     The lawsuit was filed on Dec. 1 in a court here in the city of Deyang, in Sichuan Province, the region hit hardest by the May 12 earthquake, which left 88,000 people dead or missing.

   • 2015 May 13, Didi Tang, “Chinese workers at state-owned machinery plant protest”, in AP News‎^[3], archived from the original on 08 June 2022‎^[4]:

     Three employees of China National Erzhong Group Co. in the southwestern city of Deyang said workers started taking to the streets Monday with banners protesting against corrupt and incompetent managers. They blamed management for Erzhong’s losses and poor treatment of employees.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Deyang.

Translations

prefecture-level city in China

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 德陽 / 德阳 (zh) (Déyáng)

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (2008), “Deyang”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[5], 2nd edition, volume 1, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1011, column 2

Anagrams

• Gayden, gayned, yanged