Pucheng

English

Etymology

From Mandarin 蒲城.

Pronunciation

• enPR: po͞oʹchǔngʹ

Proper noun

Pucheng

1. A county of Weinan, Shaanxi, China.
   • 1971, “Yang Hu-ch'eng”, in Biographical Dictionary of Republican China‎^[2], volume IV, Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 6:

     Little is known about Yang Hu-ch’eng’s family background or early life except that he was born in Pucheng, Shensi, and that he became a bandit.

   • 2014 November 8, Huifeng He, “Mystery of boy tied to lamp post; Daughter helped dad in bid to kill mum with bomb”, in South China Morning Post‎^[3], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 23 November 2014, China Insider‎^[4]:

     A woman was jailed for 15 years in Weinan for helping her father blow up a bus in Pucheng county in January in a failed attempt to kill his wife, […] reports.

   • 2023 March 28, Li Yuan, “China’s Cities Are Buried in Debt, but They Keep Shoveling It On”, in The New York Times‎^[5], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 28 March 2023, Business‎^[6]:

     A resident in Pucheng, in the northwestern province of Shaanxi, complained on the local government’s online messaging board in February that there was no bus service between downtown and the railway station.

Translations

county

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 蒲城 (zh)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can

Further reading

• Pucheng, P'u-ch'eng, Pu-cheng at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.
• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Pucheng”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[7], volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 2522, column 2