Shaoyang

Shao·yang
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proper noun

A prefecture-level city of Hunan, China.

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proper noun
  1. A prefecture-level city of Hunan, China.

    Mr. Tan’s journey from migrant worker to labor organizer began in a small farming community near the city of Shaoyang, in central China’s Hunan Province, where Mao Zedong was born.

    2010 June 13, David Barboza, “In China, Unlikely Labor Leader Just Wanted a Middle-Class Life”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 31 Jan 2013, Global Business
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    Top, left, weighing shed of a surface coal mine in Shaoyang, southwestern Hunan.[...]The Executive Yuan is understood to be planting the establishment of three “national industrial defence lines,” namely, a northwestern line with headquarters in Paochi, a southwestern line with headquarters in Shaoyang, and a southeastern line in Kiangchow.

    1939 February 4, C. Y. W. [孟長泳] Meng, “China Fights and Rebuilds Simultaneously”, in The China Weekly Review, volume 87, number 10, →OCLC, pages 298–299

    The four high school graduates were born in a small city of Shaoyang in central China’s Hunan province in 2003, but were transferred to a major regional hospital almost immediately because of their unstable vital signs, reported the Xiaoxiang Morning Herald.

    2021 June 9, “Quirky China: Nude chat scam hits fully-clothed man, woman gives birth in street, and quadruplets thank hospital for lives”, in AP News, archived from the original on 25 Aug 2022

    Synonyms: Paoking

Synonyms & antonyms

proper nounA prefecture-level city of Hunan, China.

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Origin

  1. Mandarin邵陽 /邵阳
  2. EnglishShaoyang

From Mandarin 邵陽 /邵阳 (Shàoyáng).

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Translations

Chinese Cantonese 邵陽 /邵阳
  • 邵陽 /邵阳 (siu⁶ joeng⁴)prefecture-level city
Chinese Mandarin 邵陽 /邵阳
  • 邵陽 /邵阳 (Shàoyáng)prefecture-level city

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APA

Shaoyang. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Shaoyang

MLA

“Shaoyang.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Shaoyang. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Shaoyang,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Shaoyang.

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