Hanyang

See also: hányǎng and Han-yang

English

Alternative forms

• Han-yang (Wade–Giles)

Etymology

From Mandarin 漢陽／汉阳 (Hànyáng).

Proper noun

Hanyang

1. A district of Wuhan, Hubei, China.
   • 1669, John Nievhoff, translated by John Ogilby, An Embassy from the Eaſt-India Company of the United Provinces, to the Grand Tartar Cham Emperour of China‎^[1], London: John Macock, page 227:

     In the Countrey of Huquang, near to the City of Hanyang, is a Tower called Xelenhoa, which far excels all other the like Structures, in Art and Coſtlineſs.

   • 1912, Edwin J. Dingle, China’s Revolution 1911-1912: A Historical and Political Record of the Civil War‎^[2], London: T. Fisher Unwin, →OCLC, page 74:

     Not a hundred yards from where I sat were four field-guns—deadly four-inchers, the modem Krupp—sending shells into Hanyang as fast as the gunners were able to work. The booming shook the whole city, sending frightened children to their mothers, themselves at their wits’ ends with fear. Revolutionary batteries at Hanyang, not yet silenced or showing any signs of giving up the fight, dropped its shells sometimes nearer, sometimes farther, never into the battery here on the railroad.

   • 2020 February 9, Gerry Shih, “Coronavirus deaths climb as China corrals sick in quarantine facilities in outbreak epicenter”, in The Washington Post‎^[3], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 09 February 2020, Asia & Pacific‎^[4]:

     Li Lina, a resident in the Hanyang district, beat a gong and shrieked from her high-rise balcony this weekend to beg for help for herself and her stricken mother holed up at home. A neighbor filmed her cries and uploaded it to the Internet, where it went viral.

2. (historical) Synonym of Seoul
   • 2023 June 19, Victoria Kim, “A Walk in Seoul: Following the Fortress Wall”, in The New York Times‎^[5], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 21 June 2023‎^[6]:

     Three quarters of a mile into the walk, you’ll be standing atop the first of three mountains, the 1,100-foot-high Inwangsan. You’ll see signs for “Hanyangdoseong,” as the wall is known in Korean (“Hanyang” is the historic name for Seoul).

Translations

district in central China

• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 漢陽／汉阳 (hon³ joeng⁴)

  Mandarin: 漢陽／汉阳 (zh) (Hànyáng)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can

(historical) an old term for Seoul

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 漢陽／汉阳 (zh) (Hànyáng)

• Japanese: 漢陽 (かんよう, Kan'yō)
• Korean: 한양(漢陽) (ko) (Hanyang)

Seoul — see Seoul

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Hanyang”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[7], volume 2, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1232, column 1