Chongyang

Chong·yang
C3H4O1N1G2Y4A1N1G2
/t͡ʃɔŋˈjæŋ//-ˈjɑŋ/

proper noun

A county of Xianning, Hubei, China.

Scrabble 19

Meanings

proper noun

alternative Chungyang

  1. A county of Xianning, Hubei, China.

    In Hupei, clan schools recorded in local gazetteers amounted to 23 percent of the schools in Huang-kang county, and from 27 to 47 percent of those in Ch'ung-yang county.

    [1979, Evelyn Rawski, “The Availability of Elementary Education”, in Education and Popular Literacy in Ch’ing China, Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 87
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    In the far south-east, Chongyang County had over 5,000 Christians by 1992 meeting in twelve “spontaneous meeting-points” (i.e. house churches) according to the TSPM.

    1999, Tony Lambert, “A survey of church growth, province by province”, in China's Christian Millions, Monarch Books, published 2006, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 252

Origin

  1. Mandarin崇陽 /崇阳
  2. EnglishChongyang

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 崇陽 /崇阳 (Chóngyáng).

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Translations

Chinese Cantonese 崇陽 /崇阳
  • 崇陽 /崇阳county
Chinese Mandarin 崇陽 /崇阳
  • 崇陽 /崇阳 (Chóngyáng)county

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