Shangcheng

See also: shāngchéng, shàngchéng, and Shàngchéng

English

Etymology

From Mandarin 商城 (Shāngchéng).

Pronunciation

• enPR: shängʹchǔngʹ

Proper noun

Shangcheng

1. A county of Xinyang, Henan, China.
   • 1958 November 24, Anna Louise Strong, “China's newest crusade: Home-made steel”, in National Guardian‎^[2], volume 11, number 6, New York, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 7, column 3:

     For one learns that the first conference ever held on local methods of steel smelting has just taken place in Shangcheng county in Honan and has approved two native methods out of the dozens shat have been used.

   • 2018 October 9, Alice Yan, “China’s worst father? This ex-PLA soldier beat his six children and rented them out to criminal gangs”, in South China Morning Post‎^[3], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2018-10-09, China‎^[4]:

     The court in Shangcheng county, a remote rural region of Henan province, ruled that Liu Mingju was not fit to raise the children, who are left solely in his care because his wife, Li Shaoju, is mentally disabled.

Translations

county

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 商城 (zh) (Shāngchéng)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can
• Marathi: शांगछंग (śāṅgchaṅga)