Wolong

See also: Wòlóng

English

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 臥龍卧龙 (Wòlóng).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈwoʊ.lɔŋ/

Proper noun

Wolong

  1. A district of Nanyang, Henan, China.
    • 2008, Chen Xuejian, editor, Travel Around China, HarperCollins, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 590:
      Located on Wolong Mound, west suburb of Nanyang, the temple was the farmstead of Zhuge Liang, a famous politician and strategist in the Three Kingdoms Period.
    • 2012 [April 12, 1998], Jiang, Zemin, “Leading Cadres Need to Increase their Political Discernment and Acuity”, in Selected Works of Jiang Zemin, volume II, Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 109:
      One of these report[sic – meaning reports] states that the Wolong District of Nanyang, Henan Province, has built a memorial to honest and upright officials, at which statues representing a number of feudal officials were erected together with ones to comrades Mao Zedong, Zhou Enlai and Liu Shaoqi, and nine marshals of the People’s Republic.

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