Xianyang

See also: xiǎnyáng

English

Alternative forms

• Hsien-yang (Wade–Giles)

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 咸陽 (Xiányáng).

Proper noun

Xianyang

1. A prefecture-level city in Shaanxi, China.
   • [1998, Chris Peers, “Shih Huang-Ti — The Tiger of Ch'in”, in Warlords of China 700 BC to AD 1662‎^[1], Arms and Armour Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 62:

     The empire was divided into thirty-six ‘commanderies'. Each of these was controlled by a military and a civil governor, with an imperial inspector charged with overseeing them and reporting back to the Ch’in capital at Hsienyang.]

   • 2023 August 29, Li Yuan, “She Rose From Poverty as China Prospered. Then It Made Her Poor Again.”, in The New York Times‎^[2], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 29 August 2023, China's Economy‎^[3]:

     Weeks after her release, a court would seize her two-bedroom apartment in Xianyang in Shaanxi Province and her Toyota Camry because she was insolvent, and put her on a national blacklist. She can no longer book a hotel room or a plane ticket, or take out a loan.

Translations

prefecture-level city

• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 咸陽 (haam⁴ joeng⁴)

  Mandarin: 咸陽 (zh) (Xiányáng)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Xianyang”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[4], volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 3501, column 3
• Xianyang, Hsien-yang, Hsienyang at Google Ngram Viewer