Lüeyang

See also: Lueyang

English

Map including Lüeyang (bottom center) (DMA, 1988)

Alternative forms

• Luehyang (Wade–Giles)
• Lueyang
• Lveyang

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 略陽／略阳 (Lüèyáng).

Proper noun

Lüeyang

1. A county of Hanzhong, Shaanxi, China.
   • 2010, Ancient and Early Medieval Chinese Literature‎^[1], volume I, →ISBN, →ISSN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 238:

     Fu Lang's ancestral home was Linwei (臨渭) in Lüeyang (略陽) commandery (northeast of modern Tianshui (天水), Gansu).

   • 2019, Franciscus Verellen, Imperiled Destinies: The Daoist Quest for Deliverance in Medieval China‎^[2], →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 318:

     Xingzhou was more than five hundred kilometers northeast of Chengdu, in modern Lüeyang 略陽 county, across today's border with Shaanxi.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Lüeyang.

Translations

county

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 略陽／略阳 (zh) (Lüèyáng)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can

Further reading

• Leon E. Seltzer, editor (1952), “Lioyang or Liaoyang”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World‎^[3], Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 1060, column 3: “Sometimes written Lüehyang.”
• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Lueyang”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[4], volume 2, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1800, column 3