Yuncheng

See also: yúnchèng and Yùnchéng

English

Alternative forms

• Yün-ch'eng (Wade–Giles)

Etymology

From Mandarin 運城／运城 (Yùnchéng).

Proper noun

Yuncheng

1. A prefecture-level city in Shanxi, China.
   • 2003 February 1, Joseph Kahn, “In China, Quick Rise And Death Of a Tycoon”, in The New York Times‎^[1], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2015-05-27, World‎^[2]:

     Wenxi County and the nearby city of Yuncheng have dispatched experts to figure out how to run Haixin, which was closely held by Mr. Li, his family and his business partners.

   • 2022 November 16, Muyi Xiao, Isabelle Qian, Ang Li, Amy Chang Chien, Vivian Wang, “What Videos Show About the Extremes of China’s ‘Zero-Covid’ Policy”, in The New York Times‎^[3], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-11-16, Asia Pacific‎^[4]:

     At Haiquan School, in Yuncheng, a city in northern Shanxi Province, thousands of boarding students from first to 12th grade were ordered to stay on campus for at least four weeks.

Translations

prefecture-level city

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 運城／运城 (zh) (Yùnchéng)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Yuncheng”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[5], volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 3540, column 2