Meanings
- alternativeAlternative form of Dangyang.
In one of two poems Tu Fu addressed to him, he suggests that they may meet at Tang-yang (Hupeh) on Wang Ts'an's famous tower.
1971, Albert Richard Davis, Tu Fu, Twayne Publishers, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 952 more examples
For his success in recovering the city of Tang-yang, Hupeh, he was rewarded with the minor hereditary rank of Chʻing-chʻê tu-yü of the second class.
1943, Arthur W. Hummel, Sr., “PI Yüan 畢沅”, in Eminent Chinese of the Ch'ing Period (1644-1912), volume 1, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 623But even Meng Hao-jan, certainly a Hsiang-yang partisan, states in one poem his belief that Wang Ts'an's loft was actually to be found—as most believed—in the city of Tang-yang, ninety miles southwest.
1981, Paul W. Kroll, Meng Hao-jan, Boston: Twayne Publishers, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 25
Origin
- Mandarin當陽 /当阳
- EnglishTang-yang
From Mandarin 當陽 /当阳 (Dāngyáng) Wade–Giles romanization: Tang¹-yang².
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