Meanings
alternative An-yang · alternative An-Yang
- A prefecture-level city of Henan, China.
The Hongkong-published magazine quoted "Chinese-speaking travelers" who witnessed part of the event in Anyang, a coal-mining center in Honan province, on Aug. 2.
1977 August 14, “HK magazine: pol. prisoners killed by Reds”, in Free China Weekly, volume XVIII, number 32, Taipei, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 13 more examples
Research on the oracle bones, scientific excavations at Anyang and elsewhere, and other investigations and discoveries have not served merely to throw light on the civilization of late Shang and early Chou times.
1936, Herrlee Glessner Creel, “Notes on Professors Karlgren's System for Dating Chinese Bronzes”, in Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, Stephen Austin and Sons, page 463The discovery of Anyang square foot spade coin molds near Pao-t'ou in Inner Mongolia leads the author through a literature search for the several Anyang place names; he concludes that the disocvery^([sic – meaning discovery]) location once bore that name and is the probable source of the coins.
1995 March, Joseph E. Boling, “Far East”, in Numismatic Literature, number 133, →ISBN, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 42Today’s Guangming Daily also reports that in Anyang, Henan Province, the father of a student brought a gang to school to beat up a class teacher because their son was neither assessed as being a student of merit nor elected captain of his school’s Young Pioneers detachment. Reports like this, which have also appeared in the past, are shocking and have caused me to reflect deeply.
2012 [2000 February 1], Jiang Zemin, “Correctly Guide the Healthy Growth of Young People”, in Selected Works of Jiang Zemin, volume II, Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 579 - A county of Anyang, Henan, China.
In May 2002, a provincial-level legal investigation determined that Mr. Qin should be released. He was given a suite at a hotel. The Anyang County police organized a banquet.
2005 September 21, Joseph Kahn, “Deep Flaws, and Little Justice, in China's Court System”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 29 May 2015, Asia Pacific
Origin
- Mandarin安陽 /安阳
- EnglishAnyang
From the Mandarin 安陽 /安阳 (Ānyáng).
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Chinese Cantonese 安陽 /安阳
- 安陽 /安阳 (on¹ joeng⁴)a city in Henan, China
Chinese Mandarin 安陽 /安阳
- 安陽 /安阳 (Ānyáng)a city in Henan, China
Hungarian Anjang
- Anjanga city in Henan, China
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