Yandang

See also: yandang, yándàng, and Yàndàng

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 雁蕩 / 雁荡 (Yàndàng, literally Wild Goose Pond).

Pronunciation

  • enPR: yěnʹdängʹ[1]
  • Hyphenation: Yan‧dang

Proper noun

Yandang

  1. A town in Yueqing, Wenzhou, Zhejiang, China.
  2. A nearby mountain.
    • 2004, Treasures of China[2], Reader's Digest, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 255, column 1:
      Yandang Mountain is situated in Leqing County, Zhejiang. The leading peak, Yanhugang (Wild Goose Lake Peak), lies 3432 ft. (1046 m) above sea level.
    • 2024 May 7, Lilit Marcus, Wayne Chang, “Chinese climbers stuck on cliff for more than an hour due to overcrowding”, in CNN[3], archived from the original on 07 May 2024, Travel‎[4]:
      Earlier this week, groups of travelers climbing Yandang Mountain in eastern China were stuck partway up a cliff, clinging to a rope along a fixed climbing route, for more than an hour.
  3. The surrounding range of mountains.

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References

  1. ^ Leon E. Seltzer, editor (1952), “Yentang Mountain”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World[1], Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 2122, column 2

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