Tso Ying

See also: Tsoying and Tso-ying

English

Etymology

From Mandarin 左營 (Zuǒyíng), Wade–Giles romanization: Tso³ Ying².

Proper noun

Tso Ying

1. Alternative form of Zuoying
   • 1953 February 28, Ernest Gordon, “A Survey of Religious Life and Thought”, in The Sunday School Times‎^[1], volume 95, number 9, →OCLC, page 174 (6):

     Approximately a hundred of Free China’s Navy Cadets attending the English Bible Class, which I conduct in the Naval Academy at Tso Ying heard Paul Toms teach Christ. On board a battleship in the harbor at Tso Ying, the captain following orders from the Admiral, summoned on deck the ship’s entire crew.

   • 1961, J. Laurence Kulp, Strontium-90 in Man and His Environment: Publications and Manuscripts‎^[2], →OCLC, page 282:

     […] four times that normally present, thus while the Taipeh rice has about twice the strontium-90 content per unit weight as that found in Tso Ying, because of the addition of mineral calcium, it has a much lower Sr⁹⁰/Ca ratio.

   • 2004, Patrick Skene Catling, chapter 29, in Better Than Working‎^[3], →ISBN, →OCLC, pages 131–132:

     As a further precondition to an audience with the Foreign Minister, we had to travel by train to the distant military base at Tso Ying to witness the invasion training of 6,000 Chinese marines.