English
Yueyang
Yueyang comes from Mandarin 岳陽.
- Mandarinmodern岳陽Yuèyáng
- Englishearliest quotation 2011Yueyang
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
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- Mandarinmodern岳陽Yuèyáng
- Englishearliest quotation 2011Yueyang
Earliest quotation: 2011, Frank Dikötter, Mao's Great Famine: “In Yueyang county, Hunan, some 22,000 people lost their…”
Every English word from Mandarin 岳陽
Today it means
name A prefecture-level city of Hunan, China.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Mandarin 岳陽 / Yueyang