Chengcheng

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Etymology

From Mandarin 澄城 (Chéngchéng).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /t͡ʃæŋ.t͡ʃæŋ/, enPR: chǔngʹchǔngʹ
  • Hyphenation: Cheng‧cheng

Proper noun

Chengcheng

  1. A county of Weinan, Shaanxi, China.
    • [1980, Cho-yun Hsu, “Farming Resources”, in Jack L. Dull, editor, Han Agriculture: The Formation of Early Chinese Agrarian Economy (206 B.C.-A.D. 220)[1], University of Washington Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 260[2]:
      Ch’eng was located south of the modern capital of Ch’eng-ch’eng County, eastern Shensi.]
    • 2000, Xin Liu, In One's Own Shadow: an Ethnographic Account of the Condition of Post-reform Rural China[3], University of California Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 8:
      Zhaojiahe is a single-surname village, which is not unusual in this area.⁸ It is under the administration of Leijiawa township, Chengcheng county, the Weinan district of Shaanxi province (see map 5).
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Chengcheng.

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