Wolong

See also: Wòlóng

English

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 臥龍／卧龙 (Wòlóng).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈwoʊ.lɔŋ/

Proper noun

Wolong

1. A district of Nanyang, Henan, China.
   • 2008, Xia Hewen [夏和文], “Education”, in Key Words for Better Understanding China [关键词读中国]‎^[1], 1st edition, Foreign Languages Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 102:

     A tutor from the Nanyang Museum of Science and Technology of Henan Province brought a “small robot’ to the classroom of the Experiment School in Wolong District of Nanyang.

   • 2008, Chen Xuejian, editor, Travel Around China‎^[2], HarperCollins, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 590:

     Located on Wolong Mound, west suburb of Nanyang, the temple was the farmstead of Zhuge Liang, a famous politician and strategist in the Three Kingdoms Period.

   • 2012 [1998 April 12], Jiang Zemin, “Leading Cadres Need to Increase their Political Discernment and Acuity”, in Selected Works of Jiang Zemin‎^[3], volume II, Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 109:

     One of these report^{[sic – meaning reports]} states that the Wolong District of Nanyang, Henan Province, has built a memorial to honest and upright officials, at which statues representing a number of feudal officials were erected together with ones to comrades Mao Zedong, Zhou Enlai and Liu Shaoqi, and nine marshals of the People’s Republic.

   • 2014 December 26, Huifeng He, Li Jing, “HIV patients hired to ‘intimidate’ people out of homes in Henan province”, in South China Morning Post‎^[4], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2014-12-26, Society‎^[5]:

     A man has been detained in Nanyang , Henan province, for allegedly hiring six HIV carriers to intimidate residents into moving out to make way for a real estate project.
     More than 10 households left the residential community in Wolong district after the group left threatening messages on building walls, yelled at residents and set off firecrackers at night, The Beijing News reported.

Translations

district

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 臥龍／卧龙 (zh) (Wòlóng)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can
• Marathi: वॉलुंग (vŏluṅga)

Further reading

• Wolong at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.