Yunghsing

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A form of Yongxing — Synonym of Woody Island.

Scrabble 17

Meanings

proper noun
  1. alternativeAlternative spelling of Yongxing.

    Radio Peiping said one plane had "intruded into China's territorial air space" over Yunghsing, Pei and Shu Islands in the Hsisha Islands, Kwangtung Province, and another over Tung Island in the Hsisha.

    1959 June 28, “Chinese Charge Air Violations By U. S. Planes”, in Monroe Morning World, volume 30, number 224, Monroe, Louisiana, sourced from Tokyo (AP), →OCLC, page 6-A, column 4
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    […]islands to aid in the establishment of Chinese administrative authority there, AP reports from Nanking. Two islands of the group will bear the names of Yunghsing and Taiping and the Ministry of the Interior has been instructed to solemnize the renaming of the islands with an announcement to the public.

    1947, The China Weekly Review, volumes 105-106, →OCLC, page 219, column 2

    A United States Navy patrol plane today violated Communist China's air space, Radio Peking charged in a broadcast heard here. The broadcast said the alleged violation occured over Yunghsing Island in the Hsisha group off the Southern China province of Kwangtung. Peking said the Chinese foreign ministry issued the "62nd warning regarding provocation by United States military aircraft" as a result of the alleged vilolation^([sic – meaning violation]).

    1959 August 23 [1959 August 22], “Peking Charges U. S. Violated Air Space”, in The Washington Post, volume 82, number 261, sourced from London UPI, →ISSN, →OCLC, page A 15, column 7

    A patrol plane of the U.S. Navy intruded over Yunghsing, Chung and Pei islands, Kwangtung Province, this morning, Radio Peking reported. A spokesman of the Chinese Foreign Ministry has been authorized to give the sixty-third serious warning regarding the military provocation by U.S. military aircraft.

    1959 August 25 [1959 August 24], “Peking Protest”, in The China Mail, number 37444, sourced from AFP, →OCLC, page 2, column 2

    Today's intrusion, the spoekman said, followed "immediately after the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People's Republic of China issued on May 11 its 95th serious warning against the intrusion of a U. S. naval patrol airplane into China's air space over Yunghsing Island in the Hsisha Islands, Kwangtung province."

    1960 May 14 [1960 May 13], “Peking Charges U. S. Plane Flight”, in The Washington Post, volume 83, number 161, sourced from Peking, →ISSN, →OCLC, page A 4, column 6

    China charged that U.S. military planes intruded in Chinese territorial air on two occasions Saturday and immediately issued a warning, its 104th, against "military provocations." The New China News Agency said the first plane intruded over the Yunghsing, Shih and Pei Islands in the Hsisha island group, Kwangtung provience^([sic – meaning province]), between 9:55 a.m. and 10:04 a.m.

    1960 June 5, “China Charges U.S. Military Plane Intrusion”, in Independent-Press-Telegram, volume 8, number 41, Long Beach, Cali., sourced from Tokyo (UPI), page C-6, column 4

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Origin

  1. Mandarin永興 /永兴
  2. EnglishYunghsing

From Mandarin 永興 /永兴 (Yǒngxīng) Wade–Giles romanization: Yung³-hsing¹.

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