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Nan-ch'ang

Nan-ch'ang is the alternative form of Nanchang.

Meaning of Nanchang

Proper noun

Nanchang

  1. A prefecture-level city, the provincial capital of Jiangxi, China.
    • But whilſt he was beſieging this City, there came, unfortunately, a new Army of Tartars from the Imperiall City of Peking , which had order to recover this Province of Kiangſi; and therefore Kinus was forced to raiſe his Siege to oppoſe their entrance by the Northern parts of the Country; And at...1655, F. Alvarez Semedo, “Bellum Tartaricum”, in The History of That Great and Renowned Monarchy of China, E. Tyler, page 290
  2. A county of Nanchang, Jiangxi, China.
  3. A village in Wanquan, Honghu, Jingzhou, Hubei, China.

Origin of Nan-ch'ang

From Mandarin 南昌 (Nánchāng), Wade–Giles romanization: Nan²-chʻang¹.

Questions about Nan-ch'ang

What is Nan-ch'ang the alternative form of?
Nan-ch'ang is the alternative form of Nanchang.

Words near Nan-ch'ang in the dictionary

  1. Nan Yang
  2. Nan'an
  3. Nan'ao
  4. Nan'yō
  5. Nan-an
  6. Nan-ch'ang
  7. Nan-ch'uan
  8. Nan-ch'ung
  9. Nan-ching
  10. Nan-hai
  11. Nan-jih

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Nan-ch'ang (page history and authors); Nanchang (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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