Yangjiang

• Yang-chiang (Wade–Giles)

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin^[1] 陽江／阳江 (Yángjiāng).

• enPR: yängʹjyängʹ^[1]
• Hyphenation: Yang‧jiang

Yangjiang

1. A prefecture-level city in southwestern Guangdong, China, formerly a county.
   • [1978 May 2 [1978 April 30], “Kwangtung Commune Reemploys Gang of Four Victims”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China, volume I, number 85, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Canton Kwangtung Provincial Service, translation of original in Mandarin, →ISSN, →OCLC, People's Republic of China: Central-South Region, page H 4:

     The party committee of (Takung) commune in Yangchiang County has reemployed a number of secretaries of the production brigade party branches who were sacked by the gang of four.]

   • 2007 December 23, Tom Pattinson, “Salvaged junk opens up secrets of ‘marine silk road’”, in The Times‎^[2], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 25 December 2022:

     The ship was discovered by an Anglo-Chinese team in 1987 off the coast of Yangjiang city near Guangzhou, buried in silt beneath 100ft of water, but it has taken 20 years to be salvaged.

• Yeungkong (Postal Romanization, from Cantonese)

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Yangjiang”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[3], volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 3514, column 2
• Yangjiang, Yangchiang, Yang-chiang, Yeungkong at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.