Yangjiang
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English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin[1] 陽江／阳江 (Yángjiāng).
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Yangjiang
- A prefecture-level city in southwestern Guangdong, China.
- 2007 December 23, Tom Pattinson, “Salvaged junk opens up secrets of ‘marine silk road’”, in The Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 25 December 2022:
- The ship was discovered by an Anglo-Chinese team in 1987 off the coast of Yangjiang city near Guangzhou, buried in silt beneath 100ft of water, but it has taken 20 years to be salvaged.
Synonyms
- Yeungkong (Postal Romanization, from Cantonese)
Translations
prefecture-level city in Guangdong
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Leon E. Seltzer, editor (1952), “Yeungkong”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World, Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 2123, column 3: “Mandarin Yang-chiang (yängʹjyängʹ)”
Further reading
- Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Yangjiang”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World, volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 3514, column 2