Jieyang

See also: Jiēyáng

English

Alternative forms

• Chieh-yang (Wade–Giles)

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 揭陽／揭阳 (Jiēyáng).

Proper noun

Jieyang

1. A prefecture-level city in Guangdong, China.
   • [1985, Fernando Galbiati, “New Roles for the Rural Tradition”, in P'eng P'ai and the Hai-Lu-Feng Soviet‎^[1], Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 229:

     One example of this power came the following month, when P’eng arranged a worker-peasant demonstration in Chiehyang to secure the release of Yang Shih-hun, a CCP labor leader arrested there.]

   • 2022 September 2, Aizhu Chen, “PetroChina builds major storage for new south China refinery - report”, in Reuters‎^[2], archived from the original on 08 March 2023‎^[3]:

     The tank farm, part of a new complex in the city of Jieyang, has storage of 3.8 million cubic meters, with 2 million cubic metres (12.6 million barrels) allotted for crude, it said, citing project operator PetroChina Guangdong Petrochemical.

Synonyms

• (from Cantonese) Kityang

Translations

city in Guangdong, China

• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 揭陽／揭阳 (kit³ joeng⁴)

  Mandarin: 揭陽／揭阳 (zh) (Jiēyáng)

  Teochew: 揭陽／揭阳 (gig⁴ iên⁵, gig⁴ ion⁵, gêg⁴ ion⁵)

• Korean: 제양 (jeyang)
• Russian: Цзея́н m (Czeján)

Further reading

• Jieyang, Chieh-yang, Kityang at Google Ngram Viewer
• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Jieyang”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[4], volume 2, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1448, column 1