Yangzhou
See also: Yángzhōu
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Etymology edit
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 揚州/扬州 (Yángzhōu).
Pronunciation edit
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈjæŋd͡ʒoʊ/, /ˈjɑŋd͡ʒoʊ/, enPR: yängʹjōʹ[1]
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Yangzhou
- A prefecture-level city in Jiangsu, in eastern China.
- Yangzhou fried rice
- 2021 August 3, “China's Wuhan to test 'all residents' amid return of Covid-19”, in France 24[2], archived from the original on 03 August 2021, Asia / Pacific[3]:
- The eastern city of Yangzhou, near Nanjing, was the latest local government to order residents to stay home after large-scale testing detected 40 new infections over the past day.
The more than 1.3 million residents of Yangzhou's urban core are now confined to their homes, with each household allowed to send only one person outside per day to shop for necessities, the city government said Tuesday.
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a prefecture-level city in eastern China
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References edit
- ^ Leon E. Seltzer, editor (1952), “Yangchow or Yang-chou”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World[1], Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 2115, column 2
Further reading edit
- Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Yangzhou”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World[4], volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 3515, column 1
- “Yangzhou”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
- “Yangzhou”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
- “Yangzhou” in TheFreeDictionary.com, Huntingdon Valley, Pa.: Farlex, Inc., 2003–2024.