Deyang
/dəˈjɑːŋ/noun
A city in Sichuan Province, China, and the name of its surrounding prefecture-level administrative region.
Did you know?The element yáng (阳) belongs to the traditional yin–yang vocabulary, where it represents brightness, warmth, activity, and the sun-facing side of a landscape.
Etymological Timeline
Classical Chinese
Chinese
德
“Virtue, moral excellence, or beneficial power”
Classical Chinese
Chinese
陽
“Sunlight, brightness, the sunny side; the active counterpart of yin”
Imperial China
Chinese
德陽
“A Chinese place-name formed from the characters for virtue and the sunny or bright side”
20th Century
Chinese
德阳
“The modern simplified-character form of the place-name”
Modern English
English
Deyang
“The romanized English form of 德阳, used for the city and prefecture in Sichuan”