Yeungkongとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From the postal romanization^[1] of Cantonese 陽江 (joeng4 gong1).

発音

• enPR: yǔrngʹgôngʹ^[2]

固有名詞

Yeungkong

1. Synonym of Yangjiang: the Cantonese-derived name
   • 1925 July 6, “AMERICAN WARSHIP SAVES MISSIONARIES; Takes Priests and Nuns From Yeungkong, China, in Spite of Heavy Seas.”, in The New York Times‎^[3], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 29 May 2023, page 15‎^[4]:

     There is great rejoicing in Hongkong today because the American destroyer Simpson, which had been sent to Yeungkong to inquire into the safety of American missionaries there, returned with a party of priests and sisters of the Maryknoll Mission.

   • 1952, Cosgrove, Joseph G., “Dead End Kids of Toishan”, in Accent on Laughter: A Life Sketch of Father Lawrence A. Conley, M.M. Maryknoll Missioner in South China‎^[5], New York: McMullen Books, Inc., →OCLC, page 83:

     SHORTLY after Easter in 1945, Father Larry was forced to join China’s fifty million refugees. Japanese troops threatened his part of Kwangtung Province, and he had to leave Hoingan. With Father Joseph P. Lavin, of Framingham, Massachusetts, he went first to Yeungkong, and then to Kochow.

   • 1988, Wiest, Jean-Paul, Maryknoll in China: A History, 1918-1955‎^[6], M. E. Sharpe, Inc., →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 54:

     The city of Kongmoon was finally chosen over Yeungkong as mission headquarters because its location on the West River made it a better center for communications.

   • 1993, Penny Lernoux, Hearts on Fire: The Story of the Maryknoll Sisters‎^[7], Orbis Books, published 2012, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 43:

     But the robbery was no joke—the women lost a year’s supply of food for their mission in Yeungkong, in addition to all their clothing and books.

   • 2005, Lavin, Paul; Robert Lavin, “An Early History of Maryknoll”, in The Iron Man of China: An American Missionary's Story‎^[8], Fitzwilliam, New Hampshire: Loreto Publications, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 5:

     A little over three months later, on December 20, to be exact, the Fathers finally arrived in Yeungkong, a city in the southern Chinese province of Kwangtung.

   • 2022 October 28, “Guangdong man infected with Covid-19 visited Macau earlier this week”, in Macau Business Media‎^[9], archived from the original on 2022-10-28‎^[10]:

     A man infected with Covid-19 who is currently in quarantine in Yeungkong city in Guangdong province has reportedly been to Macau, public broadcaster TDM has reported. […]
     However, it was at that time he received a call from Yeungkong’s health authorities that he had been in close contact with a positive case on 24 October (Monday).
     He reportedly left Macau with his friends on the night of 25 October (Tuesday) for Hengqin to drive home. They were immediately taken to quarantine upon arrival in Yeungkong city.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Yeungkong.

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