Xiangcheng

See also: xiāngchēng, xiāngchéng, and xiāngchèng

English

Alternative forms

• Hsiang-ch'eng (Wade–Giles)

Etymology 1

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 襄城 (Xiāngchéng).

Proper noun

Xiangcheng

1. A district of Xiangyang, Hubei, China.
2. A county of Xuchang, Henan, China.
   • [1964 January, “Tombs 1,800-Year-Old”, in Eastern Horizon‎^[1], volume III, number 1, Hong Kong: Eastern Horizon Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 68, column 1:

     Two 1,800-year-old tombs, one of them in a rare architectural style, have recently been unearthed in Honan province, Central China. Many well-preserved stone reliefs, murals, calligraphy and funeral objects were found in the two tombs.
     Of great interest to archæologists is a tomb in Hsiangcheng county which was built in 132 BC during the Han dynasty (206 BC—220 AD).]

Translations

district; county

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 襄城 (zh) (Xiāngchéng)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can

Etymology 2

From Mandarin 項城／项城 (Xiàngchéng).

Proper noun

Xiangcheng

1. A county-level city in Zhoukou, Henan, China.
   • [1954, Siang-tseh Chiang, “The Organization of the Nien”, in The Nien Rebellion (Far Eastern and Russian Institute Publications on Asia)‎^[2], number 2, Seattle, London: University of Washington Press, published 1967, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 62:

     In 1863, when Chang Tsung-yü was rebuilding the Nien's main force after the fall of Chih-ho, he regarded Honan as the major source for the procurement of horses. When he passed Hsiang-ch'eng (項城), he captured many people who were ransomed by payment in horses.]

   • 2007 July 11, “China hits back at defiant polluters”, in Reuters‎^[3], archived from the original on 01 August 2022, Latest Crisis‎^[4]:

     In Xiangcheng city, Henan province, site of a huge monosodium glutamate plant, factories were not connected to the waste water treatment plant.

Translations

county-level city

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 項城／项城 (zh) (Xiàngchéng)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Xiangcheng”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[5], volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 3501, column 1
• Xiangcheng, Hsiangcheng, Hsiang-cheng, Hsiang-ch'eng, Siangcheng at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.

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