Mianyang

See also: Miányáng

English

Alternative forms

• Mienyang (Postal Romanization)
• Mien-yang (Wade–Giles)

Pronunciation

• enPR: myěnʹyängʹ

Etymology 1

From Mandarin 綿陽／绵阳 (Miányáng).

Proper noun

Mianyang

1. A prefecture-level city in Sichuan, China.
   • 2008 May 29, Tyra Dempster, “Chinese battle quake lake amid official confusion”, in Reuters‎^[1], archived from the original on 08 May 2022, World News‎^[2]:

     The state Xinhua news agency said Tan Li, Communist Party chief of Mianyang in the quake zone, ordered 1.3 million people downstream from Tangjiashan to “evacuate to higher ground”.
     But Zhou Hua, a Mianyang official who is a spokesman for the lake relief effort, told Reuters that report was “mistaken”.

Translations

prefecture-level city in China

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 綿陽 / 绵阳 (zh) (Miányáng)

• Hungarian: Mienjang (hu)

Etymology 2

From Mandarin 沔陽／沔阳 (Miǎnyáng).

Proper noun

Mianyang

1. (historical) A county of Hubei, China; present-day Xiantao.

Translations

historical county in China

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 沔陽 / 沔阳 (zh) (Miǎnyáng)