Yangjiang

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Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin[1] 陽江阳江 (Yángjiāng).

Pronunciation

  • enPR: yängʹjyängʹ[1]

Proper noun

Yangjiang

  1. A prefecture-level city in southwestern Guangdong, China.
    • 2007 December 23, Tom Pattinson, “Salvaged junk opens up secrets of ‘marine silk road’”, in The Times[2], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 25 December 2022:
      The ship was discovered by an Anglo-Chinese team in 1987 off the coast of Yangjiang city near Guangzhou, buried in silt beneath 100ft of water, but it has taken 20 years to be salvaged.

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References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Leon E. Seltzer, editor (1952), “Yeungkong”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World[1], Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 2123, column 3:Mandarin Yang-chiang (yängʹjyängʹ)

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