Han-yang

See also: Hanyang

English

Map including HAN-YANG 漢陽 (AMS, 1953)

Etymology

From the Wade–Giles romanization of the Mandarin 漢陽 (Han⁴-yang²).

Proper noun

Han-yang

1. Alternative form of Hanyang
   • 1929, William Robson, Griffith John of Hankow (Bright Biographies Series)‎^[1], Pickering & Inglis, →OCLC, page 64:

     Lying on the right bank of the Yang-tse, opposite the departmental city of Han-yang and near to Hankow, its walls are about ten miles in circumference, and its population is about four hundred thousand.

   • 1968, “HUPEH”, in Encyclopedia Britannica‎^[2], volume 11, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 902, column 1:

     Commercially, Wu-han (Hankow, Wu-ch'ang and Han-yang) municipality commands the gateway to the Szechwan basin in the west and to Hunan and Kweichow in the south and southwest. Ocean-going steamships reach Wu-han and transport products to Shanghai and abroad. Across the Han river bridge from Hankow is the heavy-industry centre of Han-yang. From the latter runs the great bridge across the Yangtze joining Hankow and the provincial seat of Wu-ch'ang.

   • 1973, Roderick Stewart, Bethune‎^[3], General Publishing Co. Ltd., published 1975, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 121:

     They were willingly accepted for surgical duties in the Presbyterian mission hospital in the neighbouring city of Han-yang.

   • 1975, Wu-han (Briefs on Selected PRC Cities)‎^[4], Central Intelligence Agency, page 4:

     Han-yang is the smallest of the three cities. It was founded about A.D. 600 but, like neighboring Han-k'ou, remained relatively unimportant until the last half of the 19th century.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Han-yang.

Translations

Hanyang — see Hanyang

Further reading

• “Han-yang”, in Collins English Dictionary.
• “Han-yang”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• “Han-yang” in TheFreeDictionary.com, Huntingdon Valley, Pa.: Farlex, Inc., 2003–2024.