Shen-yang

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See also: Shenyang and Shěnyáng

English

Map including SHEN-YANG (DMA, 1975)

Etymology

From the Wade–Giles romanization of the Mandarin 瀋陽沈阳 (Shên³-yang²).

Pronunciation

  • enPR: shǔnʹyängʹ

Proper noun

Shen-yang

  1. Alternative form of Shenyang
    • 1832, James Bell, A System of Geography Popular and Scientific, volume V, Glasgow: Archibald Fullarton and Co., →OCLC, page 90:
      WHERE the population is scanty the cities must be few and small. Lyautong, being the most populous province, has the most cities, towns and villages. Shen-yang or Mookden is the capital, and was the residence of the Mandshoor schwandees or princes immediately previous to the conquest of China.
    • 1966, Jonathan D. Spence, Ts'ao Yin and the K'ang-hsi Emperor; Bondservant and Master, Yale University Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1:
      Sometime during the Ming dynasty the ancestors of Ts'ao Yin moved from northern Chihli province to Shen-yang, the present Mukden, in the area known as Liaotung.
    • 1971, CIA, The President's Daily Brief, page 8:
      The latest satellite photography showed 423 MIG-19s at two airfields associated with the aircraft production facility at Shen-yang. This is the highest number yet observed in the Shen-yang area.
    • 2014, John Browne, Seven Elements that Changed the World, Pegasus Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, pages 33–34:
      Today, by far the largest consumer of coal in the world is China. There is a striking continuity here, for the earliest known use of coal dates from around 4000 BC in the Shen-yang area of north-east China.

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References

  1. ^ Shenyang, Wade-Giles romanization Shen-yang, in Encyclopædia Britannica

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