Langya

See also: lángyá and Lángyá

English

Alternative forms

• Lang-ya (Wade–Giles)

Etymology

From Mandarin 瑯琊 / 琅琊 (Lángyá).

Pronunciation

• enPR: längʹyäʹ

Proper noun

Langya

1. A district of Chuzhou, Anhui, China.
   • 1985 October 1, James Friend, edited by Beverly Friend, China Journal: A World of Difference‎^[1], volume I, Lincolnwood, Ill.: Friendly Books, published 2008, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 93:

     National Day in China is like the Fourth of July at home — firecrackers and fireworks, picnics and outings, patriotic speeches and all the pomp that circumstance can muster. For the foreign experts at Nanjing University it meant an all-day outing to Mount Langya in Anhui Province.

   • 2017 August 9, “BRIEF-Risesun Real Estate Development unit signs cooperative development framework agreement”, in Reuters‎^[2], archived from the original on 15 May 2022, Financials:

     Risesun Real Estate Development Co Ltd
     * Says unit signed cooperative development framework agreement with Langya Mountain scenic area management committee
     * Says two entities mainly cooperate on construction of service economy demonstration area in Langya Mountain scenic area

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

Translations

district in eastern China

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 瑯琊 / 琅琊 (zh) (Lángyá)

• Japanese: 琅琊 (ろうや)