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Shenyang

Shenyang

1 5.8
A large city in the northeast of China that is the capital of Liaoning province
  • proper noun
  • /ʃɛnˈjæŋ/
: Shenyang
  • Beggars are a common sight on the urban streets of the northeastern Chinese city of Shenyang; they include people from all age groups and both genders.
  • city of Shenyang
  • people in Shenyang
  • many people in Shenyang

And they said there is a in Shenyang big city, there is a Cam chat room.

Examples

  • Experience with a pilot fund in Shenyang (Liaoning province) has been good.

    Academic text (1998)

  • All of these were traditional practices that would have been familiar to Shenyang's modern urban residents.

    Academic text (2009)

  • John was cycling on his way to work one afternoon at a private English language training center in Shenyang.

    Academic text (2009)

  • The most common strategies I observed in Shenyang might be allocated to four categories.

    Academic text (2009)

  • "I come from Shenyang in Manchuria," she began in her excellent English.

    Fiction book (1997)

  • Many of Shenyang's poor also make money collecting empty plastic drink bottles and taking them to the recycling station.

    Academic text (2009)

  • Although the reforms have been the catalyst for the massive growth that has propelled China to the status of a world economic power, they have been a mixed blessing for Shenyang and for many other peripheral regions.

    Academic text (2009)

  • A sprawling city of nearly seven million people in China's northeastern Manchurian region, Shenyang was once the capital of the Manchu dynasty, which conquered China in the seventeenth century.

    Academic text (2009)

  • Celebrated throughout China for his hard-driving, take-no-prisoners style of municipal leadership, Mu presided over the early stages of Shenyang's economic revival in the late 1990s, making deals with developers and running roughshod over the interests of ordinary citizens.

    Academic text (2014)

  • John was cycling on his way to work one afternoon at a private English language training center in Shenyang.

Synonyms

Mukden
vsShenyang
  • Archaic
1 9.5

An old name for the city Shenyang in the northeast of China

is the modern official name used today rather than that older form
Fengtien
vsShenyang
9.9

An old name for the city of Shenyang in northeast China

is the modern official name rather than the older historical form
Moukden
vsShenyang
  • Literature
9.9

An old name for the city of Shenyang in northeast China

is the modern official name used today not the historical title

Surface Forms

Shenyang main

Etymology

Shenyang comes from Chinese and actually means 'north of the Shen River'. It combines Shen (the river's name) and yang (which means 'sunny side' and in place names often points to the north bank), so the name tells you the city's location by the river.