Yangjiang

English

Alternative forms

• Yang-chiang (Wade–Giles)

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 陽江／阳江 (Yángjiāng).

Pronunciation

• enPR: yängʹjyängʹ

Proper noun

Yangjiang

1. A prefecture-level city in southwestern Guangdong, China.
   • 2007 December 23, Tom Pattinson, “Salvaged junk opens up secrets of ‘marine silk road’”, in The Times‎^[2], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 25 December 2022:

     The ship was discovered by an Anglo-Chinese team in 1987 off the coast of Yangjiang city near Guangzhou, buried in silt beneath 100ft of water, but it has taken 20 years to be salvaged.

Synonyms

• Yeungkong (Postal Romanization, from Cantonese)

Translations

prefecture-level city in Guangdong

• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 陽江 / 阳江 (joeng⁴ gong¹)

  Mandarin: 陽江 / 阳江 (zh) (Yángjiāng)

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Yangjiang”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[3], volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 3514, column 2