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T'a-ch'eng

T'a-ch'eng is the alternative form of Tacheng.

Meaning of Tacheng

Proper noun

Tacheng

  1. A prefecture of the Xinjiang autonomous region, China.
    • More than 13,000 geese were destroyed in Tacheng, in the Xinjiang autonomous region, after about 500 died of H5N1 avian flu, China's Agriculture Ministry reported.2005 June 11, Donald G. McNeil Jr., “New Asian Flu Outbreaks in China Raise Fears of a Mutant Virus”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 29 May 2015
  2. A county-level city of Tacheng prefecture, Xinjiang autonomous region, China.
    • The Daur minority is another Mongolian-speaking group, most of whom live near the town of Tacheng (Qochek), near the Kazakstan border.1998, Linda Benson, Ingvar Svanberg, China's Last Nomads, M. E. Sharpe, →ISBN, page 25
    Synonyms:
    Chuguchak

Origin of T'a-ch'eng

From Mandarin 塔城 (Tǎchéng) Wade–Giles romanization: Tʻa³-chʻeng².

Questions about T'a-ch'eng

What is T'a-ch'eng the alternative form of?
T'a-ch'eng is the alternative form of Tacheng.

Words near T'a-ch'eng in the dictionary

  1. T&G
  2. T&Gs
  3. T&I
  4. T&S
  5. t'
  6. T'a-ch'eng
  7. T'a-k'o-la-ma-kan
  8. T'ai-an
  9. T'ai-chou
  10. T'ai-chung
  11. T'ai-erh-chuang

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Adapted from Wiktionary: T'a-ch'eng (page history and authors); Tacheng (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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