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Shaoyang
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English
Etymology
From en cmn 邵陽.
Pronunciation
shouʹyängʹen 1952 Shaoyang Leon E. Seltzer The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World https://archive.org/details/columbialippinco00selt/ Morningside Heights, NY Columbia University Press 802473294 1745 https://archive.org/details/columbialippinco00selt/page/1745/ 1
en Shao yang
Proper noun
en prefecture-level city p/Hunan c/China.
en February 4, 1939 C. Y. W. [zh 孟長泳] Meng China Fights and Rebuilds Simultaneously The China Weekly Review https://archive.org/details/millards-1939.02.04/ 87 10 52770868 298–299 https://archive.org/details/millards-1939.02.04/page/299/ Top, left, weighing shed of a surface coal mine in Shaoyang, southwestern Hunan.[...]The Executive Yuan is understood to be planting the establishment of three “national industrial defence lines,” namely, a northwestern line with headquarters in Paochi, a southwestern line with headquarters in Shaoyang, and a southeastern line in Kiangchow.
June 13, 2010 w:David Barboza In China, Unlikely Labor Leader Just Wanted a Middle-Class Life https://web.archive.org/web/20100617195346/https://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/14/business/global/14honda.html 31 January 2013 http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/14/business/global/14honda.html Global Business Mr. Tan’s journey from migrant worker to labor organizer began in a small farming community near the city of Shaoyang, in central China’s Hunan Province, where Mao Zedong was born.
en June 9, 2021 Quirky China: Nude chat scam hits fully-clothed man, woman gives birth in street, and quadruplets thank hospital for lives https://web.archive.org/web/20220825221211/https://apnews.com/article/china-0fc9244688894e578eab6b5f7375f211 25 August 2022 w:AP News The four high school graduates were born in a small city of Shaoyang in central China’s Hunan province in 2003, but were transferred to a major regional hospital almost immediately because of their unstable vital signs, reported the Xiaoxiang Morning Herald.
Synonyms
en Paoking
Translations
prefecture-level city
Chinese:
Cantonese: yue 邵陽
Mandarin: cmn 邵陽 Shàoyáng
Japanese: ja
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