Chengcheng
English
Alternative forms
- Ch'eng-ch'eng (Wade–Giles)
Etymology
From Mandarin 澄城 (Chéngchéng).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /t͡ʃæŋ.t͡ʃæŋ/, enPR: chǔngʹchǔngʹ
- Hyphenation: Cheng‧cheng
Proper noun
Chengcheng
- 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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Further reading
- Saul B. Cohen, editor (2008), “Chengcheng”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World[4], 2nd edition, volume 1, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 750, column 1