Shucheng

See also: shūchéng and Shūchéng

English

Etymology

From Mandarin 舒城 (Shūchéng).

Pronunciation

  • enPR: sho͞oʹchǔngʹ[1]
  • Hyphenation: Shu‧cheng

Proper noun

Shucheng

  1. A county of Lu'an, Anhui, China.
    • 1982, Bai Shouyi (白寿彝), editor, 中国通史纲要 [An Outline History of China] (China Knowledge Series)‎[2], Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, page 450:
      In November they annihilated 6,000 crack troops of the Hunan army at Sanhe Town, Shucheng, Anhui Province, and forced the Qing troops, who were besieging Anqing, to flee.
    • 2000, Anhua Gao, “My Parents”, in To the Edge of the Sky: A Story of Love, Betrayal, Suffering, and the Strength of Human Courage‎[3], 1st edition, The Overlook Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1:
      Gao Dao-pang, my father, was born on 9 February 1906 into the rich, landowning Gao family of Shucheng County in Anhui Province.
    • 2011 April 12, “Philippines' Jollibee signs $90 miln of loan deals”, in Reuters‎[4], archived from the original on 24 August 2022, Financials‎[5]:
      The company said a portion of the proceeds will be used to open new stores, renovate existing ones, construct a logistics facility in Manila and a commissary in Shucheng County in Anhui Province in China.

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References

  1. ^ Leon E. Seltzer, editor (1952), “Shucheng or Shu-ch’eng”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World‎[1], Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 1758, column 2
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