Yiyang

English

Etymology

From Mandarin 宜陽宜阳 (Yíyáng).

Proper noun

Yiyang

  1. A county of Luoyang, Henan, China.
    • 1961 May [January 22, 1961], “China: Re-educating Capitalists”, in East Europe, A Monthly Review of East European Affairs, volume 10, number 5, New York: Free Europe Committee, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 14, column 1:
      A scene from China’s great drought of 1960. Members of the Sanhsiang people's commune in Yiyang County form a "bucket brigade" to bring water from the Lo River, reduced to a trickle.
      China Reconstructs (Peiping), November 1960
    • 1976, Chung Wen, “Legalist Ideas in Li Ho's Poetry”, in Chinese Literature, number 2, Peking: Foreign Languages Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 94:
      Li Ho (790-816), or Li Chang-chi, came from Changku County (present-day Yiyang County) in the province of Honan.
    • 1990, Zhang Jiqi, “The development of denomination systems in early Chinese coins”, in I.A. Carradice, editor, Proceedings of the 10th International Congress of Numismatics, →OCLC, page 527:
      2. In 1980, a batch of more than 75 kilograms (about 2,000 pieces) of hollow head spades with slant shoulder and arc foot was excavated at Liuquan Village, Yiyang County, Henan Province².
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Yiyang.

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