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Hengyang
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English
Alternative forms
en Heng-yang Wade-Giles
Etymology
Borrowed from en cmn 衡陽.
Pronunciation
hŭng′yäng′Hengyang 775 3Heng-yang or Heng·yang 316 1
en Heng yang
Proper noun
en prefecture-level city p/Hunan c/China.
en July 15, 1979 Publication for freedom Free China Weekly https://archive.org/details/sim_free-china-weekly_1979-07-15_20_27/ XX 27 0016-0318 1786626 Taipei 3 https://archive.org/details/sim_free-china-weekly_1979-07-15_20_27/page/n2/ A publication circulated recently in the Hengyang area of Hunan Province called on the mainland people to rise against Communism to uphold freedom and democracy, an intelligence report from the mainland said.
en December 19, 2018 Tiffany May Chinese City Bans Christmas Displays Amid Religious Crackdown w:The Washington Post https://web.archive.org/web/20181219161407/https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/19/world/asia/china-christmas-display-ban.html December 19, 2018 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/19/world/asia/china-christmas-display-ban.html 0190-8286 2269358 Asia Pacific This is not the first time a city in China has clamped down on Christmas merriment. Last December, Hengyang, a city in Hunan province, issued a stern notice asking Communist Party officials and their relatives to “resist the rampant Western festival.”
en county prefecture-level city/Hengyang p/Hunan c/China.
Translations
prefecture-level city or county of Hunan, China
Chinese:
Cantonese: yue 衡陽
Mandarin: cmn 衡陽 Héngyáng
References
Further reading
en 1998 Hengyang Saul B. Cohen The Columbia Gazetteer of the World https://archive.org/details/columbiagazettee02cohe/ 2 New York Columbia University Press 0-231-11040-5 98-071262 164337564 1267 https://archive.org/details/columbiagazettee02cohe/page/1267/ 1