Meanings
- alternativeAlternative form of Hanyang.
They were willingly accepted for surgical duties in the Presbyterian mission hospital in the neighbouring city of Han-yang.
1973, Roderick Stewart, Bethune, General Publishing Co. Ltd., published 1975, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 1213 more examples
Lying on the right bank of the Yang-tse, opposite the departmental city of Han-yang and near to Hankow, its walls are about ten miles in circumference, and its population is about four hundred thousand.
1929, William Robson, Griffith John of Hankow (Bright Biographies Series), Pickering & Inglis, →OCLC, page 64Commercially, Wu-han (Hankow, Wu-ch'ang and Han-yang) municipality commands the gateway to the Szechwan basin in the west and to Hunan and Kweichow in the south and southwest. Ocean-going steamships reach Wu-han and transport products to Shanghai and abroad. Across the Han river bridge from Hankow is the heavy-industry centre of Han-yang. From the latter runs the great bridge across the Yangtze joining Hankow and the provincial seat of Wu-ch'ang.
1968, “HUPEH”, in Encyclopedia Britannica, volume 11, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 902, column 1Han-yang is the smallest of the three cities. It was founded about A.D. 600 but, like neighboring Han-k'ou, remained relatively unimportant until the last half of the 19th century.
1975, Wu-han (Briefs on Selected PRC Cities), Central Intelligence Agency, page 4
Origin
- Mandarin漢陽
- EnglishHan-yang
From the Wade–Giles romanization of the Mandarin 漢陽 (Han⁴-yang²).
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