Yongchang

See also: yòngcháng and yòngchǎng

English

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Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin[1] romanization of the Mandarin 永昌 (Yǒngchāng).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /jɔŋ.t͡ʃæŋ/, enPR: yo͝ongʹchängʹ[2]
  • Hyphenation: Yong‧chang

Proper noun

Yongchang

  1. A county of Jinchang, Gansu, in northwestern China.
    • [1975 March 26 [1975 March 18], “Kansu Commercial Workers Pledge Fight Against Capitalism”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China, volume I, number 59, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Peking NCNA Domestic Service, translation of original in Chinese, →ISSN, →OCLC, People's Republic of China:, page N 1:
      Chen Kuo-Piao, duputy secretary of the Chenchiakou supply and marketing cooperative party branch in Yungchang County said: Our cooperative did not complete procurement of certain farm and nonstable products for the first half of 1974.]
    • 1999, Lily Xiao Hong Lee, Sue Wiles, Women of the Long March‎[3], →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 138:
      Ma Jinchang had her sent to his home in Yongchang County about 50 kilometres west of Wuwei where his chief wife, some domestic staff and about twenty guards maintained a residence which he visited periodically.

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References

  1. ^ cf. Blunden, Caroline (1998), “Gazetteer”, in Cultural Atlas of China‎[1], Revised edition, Facts on File, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 232, 237: “Names in italics represent the Wade-Giles equivalent of the preceding Pinyin transcription. […] Yongchang/Yung-ch'ang/Jinchi”
  2. ^ Leon E. Seltzer, editor (1952), “Yungchang or Yung-ch’ang”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World‎[2], Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 2131, column 1

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