# Chaoyang
## English
### Alternative forms

* Ch'ao-yang (Wade–Giles)

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /(ˈ)t͡ʃaʊˈjæŋ/, /-jɑŋ/, enPR: chouʹyängʹ

### Etymology 1

From Mandarin 朝陽／朝阳 (Cháoyáng).

#### Proper noun

Chaoyang
* Any of several towns, cities and districts in China:
** A prefecture-level city in Liaoning, China.
** A district of Beijing, China.
*** 1977 March 6, “Mobs raid offices of public security bureau”, in Free China Weekly‎, volume XVIII, number 9, Taipei, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 3:Peiping's public security bureau has been paralyzed by mob actions, according to an intelligence report reaching Taipei. The report said that since the Tienanmen uprising last April 6 each branch of the city's security bureau has been raided by mobs three to five times. The Chaoyang branch of the bureau received the brunt of the mob attacks, the report said. It was visited by angry rioters nine times in a single month, and 14 of its officials were killed.
*** 2021 November 11, “Coronavirus digest: Germany reports new record-high case numbers”, in Deutsche Welle‎, archived from the original on 12 November 2021‎:Six new cases were found in Beijing's central districts of Chaoyang and Haidian. China is seeing a spike in cases due to domestic travel in the past month.
*** 2022 April 25, Nancy Wartik, “China and the World Wait”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 25 April 2022, Briefing‎:Seventy people have tested positive in Beijing since Friday. In the capital’s fashionable Chaoyang district, home to most of those cases, the government initially ordered all 3.5 million residents to take three P.C.R. tests over the next five days.
*** 2022 May 5, “Millions in Beijing urged to work from home to fight Covid”, in France 24‎, archived from the original on 05 May 2022‎:Beijing reported 50 local cases on Thursday, a day after it said people in Chaoyang, its most populous district, should work from home. […] But Feng Yinhao, a massage parlour employee in Chaoyang district, said Beijing was "still normal" compared to the country's largest city, Shanghai.
** A county of Chaoyang, Liaoning, China.

##### Descendants

* Translingual: chaoyangensis

##### Translations
#### Further reading

* Saul B. Cohen, editor (2008), “Chaoyang or Huinan”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎, 2nd edition, volume 1, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 728, column 3

### Etymology 2

From Mandarin 潮陽／潮阳 (Cháoyáng).

#### Proper noun

Chaoyang
* A district of Shantou, Guangdong, China.
** 1907, Missions in China‎, Boston, Mass.: American Baptist Missionary Union, →OCLC, page 46:Dr. R. E. Worley was appointed to this work in 1903, but his devoted, self-sacrificing service was brief, for in the summer of 1907 he was drowned while crossing Swatow Bay after his regular weekly visit to Chaoyang, where he had a dispensary.

##### Translations
#### Further reading

* Saul B. Cohen, editor (2008), “Chaoyang”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎, 2nd edition, volume 1, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 728, column 3

### References

* ↑ Leon E. Seltzer, editor (1952), “Chaoyang or Ch’ao-yang”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World‎, Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 371, column 3