Meanings
alternative Chieh-yang
- A prefecture-level city of Guangdong, China.
One example of this power came the following month, when P’eng arranged a worker-peasant demonstration in Chiehyang to secure the release of Yang Shih-hun, a CCP labor leader arrested there.
[1985, Fernando Galbiati, “New Roles for the Rural Tradition”, in P'eng P'ai and the Hai-Lu-Feng Soviet, Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 2291 more example
The tank farm, part of a new complex in the city of Jieyang, has storage of 3.8 million cubic meters, with 2 million cubic metres (12.6 million barrels) allotted for crude, it said, citing project operator PetroChina Guangdong Petrochemical.
2022 September 2, Chen Aizhu, “PetroChina builds major storage for new south China refinery - report”, in Reuters, archived from the original on 08 Mar 2023Synonyms: Kityang
Synonyms & antonyms
proper nounA prefecture-level city of Guangdong, China.
Origin
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 揭陽／揭阳 (Jiēyáng).
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Chinese Cantonese 揭陽 /揭阳
- 揭陽 /揭阳 (kit³ joeng⁴)city in Guangdong, China
Chinese Mandarin 揭陽 /揭阳
- 揭陽 /揭阳 (Jiēyáng)city in Guangdong, China
Korean 제양, 게양
- 제양 (jeyang)city in Guangdong, China
- 게양 (geyang)city in Guangdong, China
Russian Цзея́н
- Цзея́н (Czeján)city in Guangdong, China
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Jieyang. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Jieyang
“Jieyang.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Jieyang. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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