Yang-hsin

A form of Yangxin — A town, the county seat of Yangxin County, Binzhou, Shandong, China.

OriginMandarin 陽新 /阳新 →
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Meanings

proper noun
  1. alternativeAlternative form of Yangxin.

    Later on, we attacked Yang-hsin but did not occupy it, though we occupied Ta-yeh, Huang-shih-kang, Shih-hui-yao, and other places.

    1972, Helen Foster Snow, “Chang Wen-ping and Chingkangshan”, in The Chinese Communists, Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Publishing Company, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 282
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    The balance of about 9,620,000 tons is produced by Chinese private or government mines and those worked by primitive methods- such as those in Lin-yu; Tsi-chow and Ching-shing (Chihli); I-hsien, Ning-yang and Po-shan (Shantung); Hsuan-yang, Chang-teh and An-yang (Honan); P'ing-hsiang (Kiangsi); Pao-tsin, (Shansi); Hsi-hsi (Fengtian); T'ung-shan (Kiangsu); Su-hsien (Anhui); Lui-yang (Hunan); Ta-yeh and Yang-hsin (Hupeh); Yu-kan (Kiangsi) Kan-ho (Heilungkiang); and Hsuan-hua (Chihli). Compared with the world's entire output, nineteen million tons constitute only one-fiftieth part of it, while the coal produced by purely Chinese mines is only one one-hundredth part.

    1920, Hsu Shih-chang, translated by Bureau of Economic Information, China After the War, Peking, →OCLC, →OL, page 80

    Pai-yun-shan mine (白雲山鉄鉱), 29°56'N latitude and 115°05'E longitude is about 20 kilometers northwest of the town of Yang-hsin (陽新). It is on a hill that rises 300 meters above the level of the plain.

    1952 May, Joseph F. Harrington, Benjamin M. Page, Sources of Iron Ore in Asia (Mineral Trade Notes), number 154, Washington, D.C.: Bureau of Mines, →OCLC, page 127

Origin

  1. Mandarin陽新 /阳新
  2. EnglishYang-hsin

From Mandarin 陽新 /阳新 (Yángxīn) Wade–Giles romanization: Yang²-hsin¹.

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