Hengyang

American  

[hœng-yahng] / ˈhœŋˈyɑŋ /

noun

Pinyin, Wade-Giles.

1. a city in E central Hunan province, in E China.

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Hengyang British  

/ ˈhɛŋˈjæŋ /

noun

1. a city in SE central China, in Hunan province on the Xiang River. Pop: 853 000 (2005 est)

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Example Sentences

Hengyang, a city in southern China, introduced a subsidy of nearly $5,000 to help technicians and undergraduate students buy their first homes.

From New York Times • Apr. 12, 2022

Then, late last year, the Hengyang County Rescue Station, a temporary shelter for the county’s lost and homeless, gained custody of another man who fit Jixiang’s description.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 29, 2016

Ge's targets were spread across the public and private sectors in more than 10 provinces and cities and the cases involved millions of yuan, it said, quoting the Hengyang procuratorate.

From Reuters • Oct. 22, 2013

I thought I could change trains in Hengyang, the second largest city in Hunan, but when I arrived it was 10 p.m. and the next train to Shaoyang wasn’t until 5 a.m.

From Salon • Sep. 3, 2012

But the panic had died in a crackle of firecrackers when the Chinese Army and the Fourteenth's airmen had checked the enemy at Hengyang.

From Time Magazine Archive