Mianyang
See also: Miányáng
English
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editPronunciation
edit- enPR: myěnʹyängʹ
Etymology 1
editFrom Mandarin 綿陽/绵阳 (Miányáng).
Proper noun
editMianyang
- A prefecture-level city in Sichuan, China.
- 2008 May 29, Tyra Dempster, “Chinese battle quake lake amid official confusion”, in Reuters[1], archived from the original on 08 May 2022, World News[2]:
- The state Xinhua news agency said Tan Li, Communist Party chief of Mianyang in the quake zone, ordered 1.3 million people downstream from Tangjiashan to “evacuate to higher ground”.
But Zhou Hua, a Mianyang official who is a spokesman for the lake relief effort, told Reuters that report was “mistaken”.
Translations
editEtymology 2
editFrom Mandarin 沔陽/沔阳 (Miǎnyáng).
Proper noun
editMianyang
- (historical) A county of Hubei, China; present-day Xiantao.