Yingde

See also: yīngdé, yíngdé, and Yīngdé

English

Alternative forms

• Ying-te, Ying-tê (Wade–Giles)

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 英德 (Yīngdé).

Proper noun

Yingde

1. A county-level city in Guangdong, China.
   • [1945 January 26, “Japanese Take Yingtak; McClure Is Transferred”, in The New York Times‎^[1], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 03 December 2023, page 9‎^[2]:

     Japanese forces in a three-pronged drive to strengthen their corridor bisecting China have taken Yingtak and are being engaged eighteen miles south of Kuoming, provisional capital of […]]

   • 2016 September 26, Nicholas Bakalar, “Ringing Up a New Species of Crab”, in The New York Times‎^[3], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 24 October 2022, SCIENCE‎^[4]:

     A previously unknown freshwater crab has been discovered in plain sight: on sale at a pet shop in China.
     The shop owner led scientists to the place where the crab had been collected, in Yingde City in northern Guangdong, a subtropical province on the coast of the South China Sea.

   • 2022 June 22, “China: Floods in the south force evacuations, destroy property”, in Deutsche Welle‎^[5], archived from the original on June 22, 2022, News‎^[6]:

     In Yingde, a city in Guangdong authorities have evacuated some residents to other parts of the city and advised others not to leave their homes. Residents say the stores have run out of staple foods like oil and rice due to people stockpiling goods.

Translations

city

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 英德 (zh) (Yīngdé)

Further reading

• Leon E. Seltzer, editor (1952), “Yingtak”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World‎^[7], Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 2124, column 2
• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Yingde”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[8], volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 3528, column 2

Anagrams

• Gidney, dingey, dyeing