Wuyang

See also: wúyàng

English

Etymology

From Mandarin 舞陽／舞阳 (Wǔyáng).

Pronunciation

• enPR: wo͞oʹyängʹ

Proper noun

Wuyang

1. A county of Luohe, Henan, China.
   • 1951 May, Survey of China Mainland Press‎^[2], numbers 101-126, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 38:

     18,000 workers of Wuyang County in Honan who are now concentrating on building water detention work, in coordinated efforts with hundreds of thousands of workers in the river's upper reaches, have as a result registered an average of 3.8 cubic meters of earthwork per man each day. This is twice last year's rate.

   • [2009, Dan Docherty, Tai Chi Chuan: Decoding the Classics for the Modern Martial Artist‎^[3], Crowood Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 40:

     Many books relate how, in 1852, the five major TCC Classics turn up in a salt store in Wu Yang County, Henan, where Yang’s student, Wu Cheng-qing, happens to be the local magistrate.]

   • 2015 October 31, “Henan horror: 17 builders killed as residential property collapses in central China, 9 people in serious condition”, in South China Morning Post‎^[4], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2015-10-31, China‎^[5]:

     Rescuers search for survivors in Beiwudu Town, Wuyang County in central China's Henan Province on Friday. […] The local government in Wuyang county, where the accident occurred, had called off the search by Saturday, the official Xinhua news agency said.

Translations

county

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 舞陽／舞阳 (zh) (Wǔyáng)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Wuyang”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[6], volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 3496, column 2
• Wuyang, Wu-yang at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.