Yün-ch'eng

See also: yúnchèng, Yuncheng, and Yùnchéng

English

Map including Yün-ch'eng (DMA, 1975)

Etymology

From Mandarin 運城／运城 (Yùnchéng) Wade–Giles romanization: Yün⁴-chʻêng².

Proper noun

Yün-ch'eng

1. Alternative form of Yuncheng
   • 1972, Paul Richard Bohr, Famine in China and the Missionary; Timothy Richard as Relief Administrator and Advocate of National Reform, 1876-1884‎^[1], Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 47:

     Confining his activities primarily to the important salt trading city of Yün-ch'eng, Yen proved himself a conscientious supervisor of relief.

   • 1977, Yang K'uan, “The Age in Which Shang Yang Was Born”, in Shang Yang's Reforms and State Control in China‎^[2], M. E. Sharpe, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 19:

     Since the state of Chao sent troops to Shih-men to the assistance of the state of Wei in the year in question, the other suggestion, that Shih-men was located to the southwest of today’s Yün-ch'eng 運城 in Shansi, should be taken as the correct one.

   • [1992, Samuel Adrian Miles Adshead, Salt and Civilization‎^[3], St. Martin's Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 341:

     Again, in Ho-tung, the yün-shang paid tax to the salt controller at Yun-ch'eng before he obtained his salt at the lake.]

Translations

Yuncheng — see Yuncheng

Further reading

• Leon E. Seltzer, editor (1952), “Yüncheng or Yün-ch’eng”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World‎^[4], Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 2130, column 3