Qinyang

See also: qīnyǎng

English

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 沁陽 / 沁阳 (Qìnyáng).

Proper noun

Qinyang

1. A county-level city in Jiaozuo, Henan, China.
   • [1962, Tsuen-hsuin Tsien, “Engravings on Stone and Jade”, in Written on Bamboo and Silk: the Beginnings of Chinese Books and Inscriptions‎^[1], University of Chicago Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 84:

     A group of eleven inscribed tablets of jade and stone, dating from about the sixth century B.C., is said to have been discovered around 1940 at Ch’in-yang, Honan.]

   • [1970 January 7 [1969 December 30], “Honan Grain Production”, in Daily Report: Communist China, volume I, number 4, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Chengchow Honan Provincial, translation of original in Mandarin, →OCLC, Central-South Region, page D 6:

     In Chinyang County, compared with 1965 the grain yield per mou this year was up by 49.5 percent and the "contribution to the state" by 54 percent. Winter work now in progress includes building water conservancy projects, afforestation and roadbuilding.]

   • 2013 April 1, Didi Kirsten Tatlow, “Back in China, Bus Driver Doesn’t Regret Singapore Strike”, in The New York Times‎^[2], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 19 August 2023, View from Asia‎^[3]:

     “I don’t regret what happened. We heard that after we were arrested they improved conditions,” Mr. He, 32, said by telephone from his home in Qinyang city near Jiaozuo, in Henan Province, where he returned to his wife and 5-year-old daughter after receiving a seven week jail term in Singapore.

   • 2022 July 11, By Roxanne Liu, Ryan Woo, “Shanghai braces for more mass COVID testing amid fresh curbs across China”, in Marius Zaharia, Clarence Fernandez, editors, Reuters‎^[4], archived from the original on July 11, 2022, China‎^[5]:

     In the central province of Henan, the town of Qinyang has almost completely locked down its nearly 700,000 residents from Sunday, with one person from each household allowed out every two days to get groceries.

Translations

county-level city

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 沁陽 / 沁阳 (zh) (Qìnyáng)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can
• Marathi: छिनयांग (chinyāṅga)

Further reading

• Qinyang, Ch'in-yang, Chin-yang, Ch'inyang, Chinyang at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.
• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Qinyang”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[6], volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 2547, column 3

Anagrams

• yangqin