Gaocheng

English

Alternative forms

• Kao-ch'eng (Wade–Giles)

Etymology 1

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 高城 (Gāochéng).

Proper noun

Gaocheng

1. A town in Sui, Suizhou, Hubei, in central China.

Translations

a town in central China

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 高城 (zh) (Gāochéng)

Etymology 2

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 藁城 (Gǎochéng).

Proper noun

Gaocheng

1. A district of Shijiazhuang, Hebei, China.
   • [1980, Kwang-chih Chang, Shang Civilization‎^[1], Yale University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 290:

     It has been shown that remains of Erh-li-kang type occur throughout the region that was to become the Shang capital in the dynasty's final centuries, in Tz'u Hsien, Han-tan, and Hsing-t'ai. Further north, an important Shang site was found near T'ai-hsi-ts'un 台西村, west of Kao-ch'eng, near Shih-chia-chuang, and excavated in 1965,³ 1972,⁴ and 1973.⁵]

   • 2021 January 14, “More than 20,000 Chinese villagers are moved to quarantine sites as a preventative measure”, in CNN‎^[2], archived from the original on 14 January 2021‎^[3]:

     More than 20,000 citizens from 12 villages in the Gaocheng District of the Chinese city of Shijiangzhuang have been relocated to quarantine sites as a preventative measure against Covid-19, according to Chinese state media.

   • 2021 August 27, David Stanway, “China's total arable land shrinks nearly 6% from 2009-2019 - survey”, in Krishna Chandra Eluri, editor, Reuters‎^[4], archived from the original on 27 August 2021, China‎^[5]:

     A farmer plants seeds in a corn field at a farm in Gaocheng, Hebei province, China, September 30, 2015.

Translations

district

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 藁城 (zh) (Gǎochéng)

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (2008), “Gaocheng”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[6], 2nd edition, volume 1, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1316, column 3