Yangling

Yang·ling
Y4A1N1G2L1I1N1G2

proper noun

A district of Xianyang, Shaanxi, China.

OriginMandarin 楊陵 /杨陵 →
Scrabble 13
Ask AI about this wordChatGPTClaudePerplexityGoogle AIGrok

Meanings

proper noun
  1. A district of Xianyang, Shaanxi, China.

    In Yangling, a district of 155,000 people that has been a center for agricultural sciences since the 1930s, several problems with the government’s attempt to sidestep privatization are apparent.

    2014 October 12, Ian Johnson, “Once a Symbol of Power, Farming Now an Economic Drag in China”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 13 Oct 2014, Asia Pacific
    2 more examples

    This year the Yangling district, designated by the provincial government as a base for harvesting improved seed varieties, not only planted the Xiaoyan numbers 6, 107, and 168 and the Shaanxi number 213 seed varieties which are so well-liked by the people, but it also planted such new and improved seed varieties as the superior new composite Xinong number 85 and the Shaanxi 229, 897, and 84G6 varieties, among others.

    1993 August 10 [1993 June 6], “Everyone Contributes To Ensure Abundant Results From the Summer Harvest”, in JPRS Report China, number 93-058, Joint Publications Research Service, sourced from Xian SHAANXI RIBAO p 1, translation of original in Chinese, →OCLC, page 41, column 1

    After completing my Chinese language training, I was sent at the age of 20 to the Northwest A&F University in the Yangling District of Xiangyang^([sic – meaning Xianyang]), a city of some seven million people in Shaanxi province.

    2022, Nury Turkel, chapter 1, in No Escape: The True Story of China's Genocide of the Uyghurs, →ISBN, →OCLC, page https://www.google.com/books/edition/No_Escape/gJA9EAAAQBAJ?gbpv=1&pg=PT35

Origin

  1. Mandarin楊陵 /杨陵
  2. EnglishYangling

From Mandarin 楊陵 /杨陵 (Yánglíng).

More words from Mandarin

Full word history & related roots →

Translations

Chinese Cantonese 楊陵 /杨陵
  • 楊陵 /杨陵 (joeng⁴ ling⁴)district
Chinese Mandarin 楊陵 /杨陵
  • 楊陵 /杨陵 (Yánglíng)district
Cite this entry
APA

Yangling. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Yangling

MLA

“Yangling.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Yangling. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Yangling,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Yangling.

Source: Yangling on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.