Huanggang

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Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 黃岡黄冈 (Huánggāng).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈhwɑŋ ɡɑŋ/

Proper noun

Huanggang

  1. A prefecture-level city in Hubei, China.
    • [1977, Hofheinz, Roy, Jr., The Broken Wave: The Chinese Communist Peasant Movement, 1922-1928, Cambridge, Massachusetts and London, England: Harvard University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 47:
      In Huangkang, Hupeh, the one non-Communist association, far from being easily absorbed, declared itself to be the holy peasant association and had to be suppressed violently.]
    • 2020 December 30, Kang, Dake Kang; Sam McNeil; Maria Cheng, “China clamps down in hidden hunt for coronavirus origins”, in AP News, archived from the original on 30 December 2020:
      These enormous gaps in the research aren’t due just to a lack of testing but also to a lack of transparency. Internal data obtained by the AP shows that by Feb. 6, the Hubei CDC had tested over 100 samples in Huanggang, a city southeast of Wuhan. But the results have not been made public.

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