Yongxing

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 永興島 / 永兴岛 (Yǒngxīngdǎo).

Pronunciation

  • enPR: yo͝ongʹshǐngʹ[1]

Proper noun

Yongxing

  1. Synonym of Woody Island.

Translations

References

  1. ^ Leon E. Seltzer, editor (1952), “Woody Island”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World‎[1], Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 2105, column 1: “Chinese Yunghing or Yung-hsing (yo͝ongʹshǐngʹ)”
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