Xianyang

• Hsien-yang (Wade–Giles)

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 咸陽 (Xiányáng).

• enPR: shyěnʹyängʹ^[1]
• Hyphenation: Xian‧yang

Xianyang

1. A prefecture-level city of Shaanxi, China.
   • [1998, Chris Peers, “Shih Huang-Ti – The Tiger of Ch'in”, in Warlords of China: 700BC to AD1662‎^[2], Arms and Armour Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 62:

     The empire was divided into thirty-six ‘commanderies’. Each of these was controlled by a military and a civil governor, with an imperial inspector charged with overseeing them and reporting back to the Ch’in capital at Hsienyang.]

   • [2016, Bill Porter, “Onward [往前]”, in The Silk Road: Taking the Bus to Pakistan‎^[3], Counterpoint, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 72:

     Far less known, but almost as impressive, was Meng T’ien’s construction of a superhighway connecting the Chinese capital of Hsienyang (just across the Wei River from Ch’ang-an) with the newer sections of the Great Wall in Inner Mongolia.]

   • 2023 August 29, Li Yuan, “She Rose From Poverty as China Prospered. Then It Made Her Poor Again.”, in The New York Times‎^[4], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 29 August 2023, China's Economy‎^[5]:

     Weeks after her release, a court would seize her two-bedroom apartment in Xianyang in Shaanxi Province and her Toyota Camry because she was insolvent, and put her on a national blacklist. She can no longer book a hotel room or a plane ticket, or take out a loan.

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Xianyang”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[6], volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 3501, column 3
• Xianyang, Hsien-yang, Hsienyang at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.