Hongya

Hong·ya
H4O1N1G2Y4A1

proper noun

A county of Meishan, Sichuan, China.

Scrabble 13

Meanings

proper noun
  1. A county of Meishan, Sichuan, China.

    Szechwan.[…]By the end of 1977, Hungya County had some 22,600 oxen in sties.

    [1978, Summary of World Broadcasts: The Far East Weekly Supplement, →OCLC, page 17
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    Finance and Revenue departments in Hungya County have seriously implemented the financial and economic general principle of developing the economy and guaranteeing supplies, grasped revolution and promoted production, actively supported industry and agriculture, promoted the development of production and increased revenue.

    [1974 October 15 [1974 October 14], “Revenue Increasing in Two Szechwan Counties”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China, volume I, number 200, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Chengtu Szechwan Provincial Service, translation of original in Mandarin, →ISSN, →OCLC, page J 4

    The company used the money to buy a mine with 50 million cubic metres of granite in Hongya county, a poor, remote region in western Sichuan.[…] Hongya has the fourth largest natural forest in China with an area of 72,000 hectares. Ninety per cent of the trees are more than 100 years old.

    1998 November 15, Mark O'Neill, “Professor targeted over his TV exposure of illegal logging trade in precious”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 09 Oct 2023

    In June 1993, Roy Lancaster saw Ribes davidii in the wilds of Hongya County, southwestern Sichuan, growing as an epiphyte in cloud-forest communities at 2700 m, with Rhododendron moupinense, Vaccinium moupinense, and the intriguing pink-flowered, epiphytic Solomon’s seal, Heteropolygonatum xui.

    2005, The Jade Garden: New & Notable Plants from Asia, Timber Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 147

Origin

  1. Mandarin洪雅
  2. EnglishHongya

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 洪雅.

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Translations

Chinese Cantonese 洪雅
  • 洪雅county
Chinese Mandarin 洪雅
  • 洪雅 (Hóngyǎ)county
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