Ying-ch'eng

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English

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Map including YING-CH’ENG 應城 (AMS, 1953)

Etymology

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From Mandarin 應城应城 (Yìngchéng) Wade–Giles romanization: Ying⁴-chʻêng².

Proper noun

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Ying-ch'eng

  1. Alternative form of Yingcheng
    • 1903, Joseph Edkins, “Hupei Salt Wells”, in The Revenue and Taxation of the Chinese Empire[1], Shanghai: Presbyterian Mission Press, →OCLC, page 213:
      In Hupei, at Wu-siu, about four hundred li from Hankow, salt wells are found. They are also found at Ying-chʻeng 應城, seventy or eighty miles north-west of Hankow. []
      Ying-chʻeng belongs to the prefecture of Tê-an-fu.
    • 1966, David S. Nivison, The Life and Thought of Chang Hsüeh-ch'eng (1738-1801)[2], Stanford University Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 23:
      In his fourteenth year, Chang was married to a girl surnamed Yü. In this same year Chang Piao was appointed magistrate of Ying-ch’eng in the lake district of Hupeh, and he moved his family there.
    • 1968, Holmes Welch, The Buddhist Revival in China[3], Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 81:
      For example, in Ying-chʻeng, which lay about eighty-five kilometers southwest[sic – meaning northwest] of Hankow, there was only one Buddhist group, the Ying-ch’eng Buddhist Society.

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