Huanggang

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 黃岡 / 黄冈 (Huánggāng).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈhwɑŋ ɡɑŋ/
  • enPR: hwängʹgängʹ[1]

Proper noun

Huanggang

  1. A prefecture-level city of Hubei, China.
    • 2020 January 31, Martin Pollard, Thomas Peter, David Stanway, “Travellers beat China virus lockdown via bridge over the Yangtze”, in Stephen Coates, Mike Collett-White, editors, Reuters[2], archived from the original on 02 February 2020, WORLD NEWS‎[3]:
      The Yangtze divides Jiujiang in Jiangxi province and Huanggang in neighbouring Hubei, one of the cities hardest hit by the coronavirus outbreak and now sealed off from the rest of China to try to contain it.
    • 2020 December 30, Dake Kang Kang, Sam McNeil, Maria Cheng, “China clamps down in hidden hunt for coronavirus origins”, in AP News[4], archived from the original on 30 December 2020[5]:
      These enormous gaps in the research aren’t due just to a lack of testing but also to a lack of transparency. Internal data obtained by the AP shows that by Feb. 6, the Hubei CDC had tested over 100 samples in Huanggang, a city southeast of Wuhan. But the results have not been made public.

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References

  1. ^ Leon E. Seltzer, editor (1952), “Hwangkang or Huang-kang”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World[1], Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 819, column 1

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