Meaning of Hanyang | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A district of Wuhan, Hubei, China.
2. Synonym of Seoul.
   historical

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Examples

“In the Countrey of Huquang, near to the City of Hanyang, is a Tower called Xelenhoa, which far excels all other the like Structures, in Art and Coſtlineſs.”

“Not a hundred yards from where I sat were four field-guns—deadly four-inchers, the modem Krupp—sending shells into Hanyang as fast as the gunners were able to work. The booming shook the whole city, sending frightened children to their mothers, themselves at their wits’ ends with fear. Revolutionary batteries at Hanyang, not yet silenced or showing any signs of giving up the fight, dropped its shells sometimes nearer, sometimes farther, never into the battery here on the railroad.”

“Li Lina, a resident in the Hanyang district, beat a gong and shrieked from her high-rise balcony this weekend to beg for help for herself and her stricken mother holed up at home. A neighbor filmed her cries and uploaded it to the Internet, where it went viral.”

“Videos showing rowdy protests inside a compound in Wuhan's Hanyang district on Thursday night were shared on social media on Friday, with angry residents seen smashing down COVID disaster relief tents and calling for an end to their lockdown.”

“Yoo Se-poong (Kim Min-jae) and the motley crew of the Gyesu Clinic are back in business and this time they are plying their trade in the streets and palaces of Hanyang, the capital of South Korea’s Joseon dynasty that is today known as Seoul.”

“Three quarters of a mile into the walk, you’ll be standing atop the first of three mountains, the 1,100-foot-high Inwangsan. You’ll see signs for “Hanyangdoseong,” as the wall is known in Korean (“Hanyang” is the historic name for Seoul).”

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