Xuancheng

English

Alternative forms

• Hsuanch'eng (Wade–Giles)

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 宣城 (Xuānchéng).

Proper noun

Xuancheng

1. A prefecture-level city in Anhui, China.
   • [1943 October 18, “Double-Ten Day”, in Pathfinder‎^[1], Washington, D.C.: Pathfinder Company, →OCLC, page 13, column 2:

     On that very day half of a large Japanese force was trapped and completely destroyed near Hsuancheng in East China, 80 miles south of Nanking. It was a Chinese victory which not only helped along the celebration of Double-Ten Day, but added the right note to another important event of the moment, the formal inauguration of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek as President of the Republic.]

   • 2016 July 21, Angela Fritz, “This year’s monsoon floods are the second-costliest on record in China”, in The Washington Post‎^[2], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on July 22, 2016, Capital Weather Gang‎^[3]:

     Trees and houses are submerged by floodwater in a village in Xuancheng, in east China’s Anhui province.

   • 2020 April 3, Jack Nicas, “It’s Bedlam in the Mask Market, as Profiteers Out-Hustle Good Samaritans”, in The New York Times‎^[4], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2020-04-03‎^[5]:

     Take Zhou Hua, the owner of a factory in Xuancheng, China, that months ago made children’s clothing. In February, as the coronavirus swept across his country, he rushed to buy mask machines and spent roughly $500,000 transforming his plant.

Translations

prefecture-level city

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 宣城 (zh) (Xuānchéng)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Xuanzhou”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[6], volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 3505, column 3: “Also called Xuancheng.”