Chengcheng

English

Alternative forms

• Ch'eng-ch'eng (Wade–Giles)

Etymology

From Mandarin 澄城 (Chéngchéng).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t͡ʃæŋ.t͡ʃæŋ/, enPR: chǔngʹchǔngʹ

Proper noun

Chengcheng

1. A county of Weinan, Shaanxi, China.
   • [1980, Cho-yun Hsu, edited by Jack L. Dull, 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:

     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^[2], 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).

   • 2008 October 29, Beijing newsroom, “China mine gas blast traps 29”, in Nick Macfie, editor, Reuters‎^[3], archived from the original on 02 April 2023, Asia Crisis‎^[4]:

     A gas explosion at a coal mine in northern China has trapped at least 29 people, state media said on Thursday, the latest in a series of colliery accidents across the country.
     The blast occurred late on Wednesday in Chengcheng county, Shaanxi province, the official Xinhua news agency said in a brief report.

Translations

county

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 澄城 (zh) (Chéngchéng)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (2008), “Chengcheng”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[5], 2nd edition, volume 1, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 750, column 1