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Hanyang en · PROPN

Pronunciation

• hän′yäng′

Etymology

From Mandarin 漢陽 /汉阳 (Hànyáng).

Meanings

1. A district of Wuhan, Hubei, China.
   • Li Lina, a resident in the Hanyang district, beat a gong and shrieked from her high-rise balcony this weekend to beg for help for herself and her stricken mother holed up at home. A neighbor filmed her cries and uploaded it to the Internet, where it went viral. 2020 February 9, Gerry Shih, “Coronavirus deaths climb as China corrals sick in quarantine facilities in outbreak epicenter”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 09 Feb 2020, Asia & Pacific:
   • Not a hundred yards from where I sat were four field-guns—deadly four-inchers, the modem Krupp—sending shells into Hanyang as fast as the gunners were able to work. The booming shook the whole city, sending frightened children to their mothers, themselves at their wits’ ends with fear. Revolutionary batteries at Hanyang, not yet silenced or showing any signs of giving up the fight, dropped its shells sometimes nearer, sometimes farther, never into the battery here on the railroad. 1912, Edwin J. Dingle, China’s Revolution 1911-1912: A Historical and Political Record of the Civil War, London: T. Fisher Unwin, →OCLC, page 74:
   • In the Countrey of Huquang, near to the City of Hanyang, is a Tower called Xelenhoa, which far excels all other the like Structures, in Art and Coſtlineſs. 1669, John Nievhoff, translated by John Ogilby, An Embassy from the Eaſt-India Company of the United Provinces, to the Grand Tartar Cham Emperour of China, London: John Macock, page 227:
   • Videos showing rowdy protests inside a compound in Wuhan's Hanyang district on Thursday night were shared on social media on Friday, with angry residents seen smashing down COVID disaster relief tents and calling for an end to their lockdown. 2022 November 3, Ryan Woo, Martin Quin Pollard, Bernard Orr, Beijing and Shanghai newsrooms, “China COVID cases surge to 6-month high as tensions in affected cities build”, in Tom Hogue, Christian Schmollinger, editors, Reuters, archived from the original on 05 Nov 2022, China:
2. (historical) Synonym of Seoul.
   • Three quarters of a mile into the walk, you’ll be standing atop the first of three mountains, the 1,100-foot-high Inwangsan. You’ll see signs for “Hanyangdoseong,” as the wall is known in Korean (“Hanyang” is the historic name for Seoul). 2023 June 19, Victoria Kim, “A Walk in Seoul: Following the Fortress Wall”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 21 Jun 2023:
   • Yoo Se-poong (Kim Min-jae) and the motley crew of the Gyesu Clinic are back in business and this time they are plying their trade in the streets and palaces of Hanyang, the capital of South Korea’s Joseon dynasty that is today known as Seoul. 2023 January 16, “K-drama Poong, the Joseon Psychiatrist Season 2: period medical drama starring Kim Min-jae moves from countryside to royal palace”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 16 Jan 2023, Korean drama reviews:

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Synonyms

Seoul

Translations (6)

yue 漢陽 /汉阳 ((historical) an old term for Seoul) · yue 漢陽 /汉阳 (district in central China) · ko 한양 ((historical) an old term for Seoul) · cmn 漢陽 /汉阳 ((historical) an old term for Seoul) · ja 漢陽 ((historical) an old term for Seoul) · cmn 漢陽 /汉阳 (district in central China)