Etymology

Yueyang

Yue·yang
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Today it means: A prefecture-level city of Hunan, China. Full definition →

Mandarin 岳陽 /岳阳
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The story

  1. Mandarin · borrowed from岳陽 /岳阳
  2. English todayYueyang

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 岳陽 /岳阳 (Yuèyáng).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.