Chu-ch'eng

English

Etymology

From Mandarin 諸城 / 诸城 (Zhūchéng), Wade–Giles romanization: Chu¹-chʻêng².

Proper noun

Chu-ch'eng

1. Alternative form of Zhucheng
   • 1966, Pin-ching Hu, “The Life of Li Ch'ing-chao”, in Li Ch'ing-chao‎^[1], Twayne Publishers, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 29:

     At eighteen she married Chao Ming-ch’eng, a student of the Imperial Academy and a well-known epigraphist. He was a native of Chu-ch’eng in Shantung Province.

   • 1974, Timothy A. Ross, Chiang Kuei‎^[2], New York: Twayne Publishers, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 19:

     It was in these confused circumstances, when the issue between the provincial government in Tsinan and the revolutionaries scattered through the province must still have seemed in doubt, that the uprising in Chu-ch’eng took place.

   • 1977, Roxane Witke, “Escape from Childhood”, in Comrade Chiang Chʻing‎^[3], Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 45:

     Her first home was in Chu-ch'eng, a city of some 80,000 persons on the south bank of the Wei River, about fifty miles from the cosmopolitan port city of Tsingtao in Shantung province.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Chu-ch'eng.

Translations

Zhucheng — see Zhucheng