Wencheng

English

Etymology

From Mandarin 文城 (Wénchéng).

Pronunciation

  • enPR: wǔnʹchǔngʹ
  • Hyphenation: Wen‧cheng

Proper noun

Wencheng

  1. A county of Wenzhou, Zhejiang, China.
    • 2016 September 30, “13 dead, 20 still missing in China after typhoon landslides”, in AP News‎[1], sourced from Beijing (AP), archived from the original on 25 September 2024‎[2]:
      The landslides Wednesday in Zhejiang province, south of the financial hub of Shanghai, followed Typhoon Megi, which brought heavy rains and high winds to China and Taiwan this past week. […]
      The second landslide in Wencheng county killed five people, with one person still missing, an official at the county’s flood control office said Saturday.

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