Daocheng

English

Alternative forms

• Tao-ch'eng (Wade–Giles)

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 稻城 (Dàochéng).

Proper noun

Daocheng

1. A county of Garzê prefecture, Sichuan, China.
   • 2003 January 3, Wenlong, “Paradise Regained”, in Beijing Today‎^[1], →OCLC, page 16:

     If the altitude of Daocheng (稻城) County doesn’t leave tourists speechless, the magnificent mountains and meadows in the vicinity of this 4,000-meter-high plateau surely will.

   • 2008, Bradley Mayhew, Tibet‎^[2], 7th edition, Lonely Planet, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 277:

     DAOCHENG (DABPA) 稻城
     0836 / pop 7000 / elev 3800m
     The county town of Daocheng (Dabpa in Tibetan) is mainly a jumping-off point for Yading Nature Reserve (right).

   • 2022 March 18, “Two Sichuan sites selected as “China’s New Archaeological Discoveries in 2021””, in AP News‎^[3], archived from the original on 18 March 2022:

     The Piluo site was discovered in May 2020 in Daocheng county, Sichuan province. Archaeologists found nearly 10,000 stone artifacts at the site at an altitude of 3,750 meters.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Daocheng.

Synonyms

• (from Tibetan) Dabpa

Translations

county in west China

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 稻城 (zh) (Dàochéng)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (2008), “Daocheng”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[4], 2nd edition, volume 1, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 965, column 3