Xiangcheng
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Alternative forms edit
Etymology 1 edit
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 襄城 (Xiāngchéng).
Proper noun edit
Xiangcheng
- A district of Xiangyang, Hubei, China.
- A county of Xuchang, Henan, China.
- [1964 January, “Tombs 1,800-Year-Old”, in Eastern Horizon[1], volume III, number 1, Hong Kong: Eastern Horizon Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 68, column 1:
- Two 1,800-year-old tombs, one of them in a rare architectural style, have recently been unearthed in Honan province, Central China. Many well-preserved stone reliefs, murals, calligraphy and funeral objects were found in the two tombs.
Of great interest to archæologists is a tomb in Hsiangcheng county which was built in 132 BC during the Han dynasty (206 BC—220 AD).]
Translations edit
district; county
Etymology 2 edit
From Mandarin 項城/项城 (Xiàngchéng).
Proper noun edit
Xiangcheng
- A county-level city in Zhoukou, Henan, China.
- 2007 July 11, “China hits back at defiant polluters”, in Reuters[2], archived from the original on 01 August 2022, Latest Crisis[3]:
- In Xiangcheng city, Henan province, site of a huge monosodium glutamate plant, factories were not connected to the waste water treatment plant.
Translations edit
county-level city
Further reading edit
- Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Xiangcheng”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World[4], volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 3501, column 1
- Xiangcheng, Hsiangcheng, Hsiang-cheng, Hsiang-ch'eng, Siangcheng at Google Ngram Viewer