Jianyang
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English
Alternative forms
- (dated) Kienyang
Etymology 1
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 建陽 / 建阳 (Jiànyáng).
Proper noun
Jianyang
- A district and former county of Nanping, Fujian, China.
- 1983 April 14, “AROUND THE WORLD; Tornado Kills 54 In South China”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 27 September 2023, Around the World, page 11:
- It said 90 buildings collapsed in the storm that hit Jianyang county of Fujian Province. The agency quoted county authorities as saying the casualties included students and teachers in local schools.
Translations
district
Etymology 2
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 簡陽 / 简阳 (Jiǎnyáng).
Proper noun
Jianyang
- A county-level city in Chengdu, Sichuan, China.
Translations
county-level city
Further reading
- Jianyang, Kienyang at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.
- Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Jianyang”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World, volume 2, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1447, column 1