Yiyang

See also: yīyǎng, yīyàng, Yíyáng, yíyǎng, yìyáng, and yìyàng

English

Etymology 1

From Mandarin 弋陽／弋阳 (Yìyáng).

Proper noun

Yiyang

1. A county of Shangrao, Jiangxi, China.

Translations

county

• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 弋陽／弋阳 (jik⁶ joeng⁴)

  Mandarin: 弋陽／弋阳 (zh) (Yìyáng)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can

Etymology 2

From Mandarin 宜陽／宜阳 (Yíyáng).

Proper noun

Yiyang

1. A county of Luoyang, Henan, China.
   • 1961 May [1961 January 22], “China: Re-educating Capitalists”, in East Europe, A Monthly Review of East European Affairs‎^[1], volume 10, number 5, New York: Free Europe Committee, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 14, column 1:

     A scene from China’s great drought of 1960. Members of the Sanhsiang people's commune in Yiyang County form a "bucket brigade" to bring water from the Lo River, reduced to a trickle.
     China Reconstructs (Peiping), November 1960

   • 1976, Chung Wen, “Legalist Ideas in Li Ho's Poetry”, in Chinese Literature‎^[2], number 2, Peking: Foreign Languages Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 94:

     Li Ho (790-816), or Li Chang-chi, came from Changku County (present-day Yiyang County) in the province of Honan.

   • 1990, Zhang Jiqi, “The development of denomination systems in early Chinese coins”, in I.A. Carradice, editor, Proceedings of the 10th International Congress of Numismatics‎^[3], →OCLC, page 527:

     2. In 1980, a batch of more than 75 kilograms (about 2,000 pieces) of hollow head spades with slant shoulder and arc foot was excavated at Liuquan Village, Yiyang County, Henan Province².

   • 2005 November 20, Edward Cody, “China's Remote Villages Portend A Tough Fight Against Bird Flu”, in The Washington Post‎^[4], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 03 December 2023‎^[5]:

     Chickens ranged freely down the single mud lane of Wu Yuegou village, pecking at stray seeds and scattering with excited clucks when the dogs came barking. […]
     In this small community in the plains of northern Henan province, and across the rest of China, farmers in remote villages have made a tradition of keeping a few chickens around the barnyard. […]
     Even though the chickens in Li's village have not been vaccinated, officials in surrounding Yiyang County appear to have reacted to the call for action from Beijing. The Communist Party's tight organization at every level of the country's administration has long been an effective tool for handing down orders.

   • 2019 September 10, Alexandra Stevenson, Raymond Zhong, “China’s Pork Prices Soar, Adding to Beijing’s Troubles”, in The New York Times‎^[6], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2019-09-10, BUSINESS‎^[7]:

     Piglets at a farm in Yiyang County in China’s Henan Province. China has culled 1.2 million pigs in an effort to contain a deadly swine disease.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Yiyang.

Translations

county

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 宜陽／宜阳 (zh) (Yíyáng)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Yiyang”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[8], volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 3529, column 1

Etymology 3

From Mandarin 益陽／益阳 (Yìyáng).

Proper noun

Yiyang

1. A prefecture-level city in Hunan, China.
   • 2007 August 9 [2007 May 19], “China confirms birdflu outbreak among poultry”, in Reuters‎^[9], archived from the original on August 23, 2024‎^[10]:

     China has confirmed an outbreak of the H5N1 birdflu virus among poultry in the central province of Hunan, but no cases of human infection in the area hit, state media reported on Saturday.
     The outbreak was in a village near Yiyang city in Hunan and killed 11,172 birds, a Ministry of Agriculture spokesman told Xinhua news agency. […]
     Yiyang, the site of the outbreak, lies next to Lake Dongting, which hosts many migratory birds.

Translations

prefecture-level city

• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 益陽／益阳 (jik¹ joeng⁴)

  Mandarin: 益陽／益阳 (zh) (Yìyáng)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can