Xuchang

English

Alternative forms

• Hsuchang (Postal Romanization)
• Hsu-ch'ang, Hsü-ch'ang (Wade–Giles)

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 許昌／许昌 (Xǔchāng).

Proper noun

Xuchang

1. A prefecture-level city in Henan, China.
   • [1938 December, Gustav Carlberg, The Story of Our China Mission‎^[1], Board of Foreign Missions of the Augustana Synod, →OCLC, page 6:

     The following autumn Rev. Edwins, in company with Rev. Landahl of the Hauge Mission, fared forth on Chinese carts for central Honan, finally arriving, after many dangers and vicissitudes on the way, at Hsüchow (now Hsüchang) on the Peking-Hankow Railroad.]

   • [2007, Brian Taylor, “Chiang Kai-shek and the Loss of China”, in Washington College International Studies Review‎^[2], volume IV, page 72:

     Chiang habitually failed to take the advice of competent strategists. One especially harmful display of this tendency came in 1948 when, against the advice of his staff and American advisers, he massed more than fifty divisions around Hsuchang to prevent Communist forces from dominating central China. The result was a complete disaster in which 550,000 Nationalist soldiers were lost, an estimated 325,000 as prisoners.]

   • 2022 July 11, Zixu Wang, Austin Ramzy, “Security Forces in China Attack Protesters Seeking Frozen Funds”, in The New York Times‎^[3], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-07-11, Business‎^[4]:

     The police in the Henan city of Xuchang said on Monday that they were investigating a criminal gang headed by a man named Lu Yi whom they say may have used Henan New Fortune Group to amass control of the rural banks, and used fictitious loans to illegally transfer funds.

Translations

prefecture-level city in central China

• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 許昌／许昌 (heoi² coeng¹)

  Mandarin: 許昌／许昌 (zh) (Xǔchāng)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Xuchang”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[5], volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 3505, column 3