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Wenchang

Syllables: Wen·chang

Wenchang proper noun: a county-level city of Hainan, China.

Proper noun

Wenchang

  1. A county-level city of Hainan, China.
    • Messrs. David and Oustalet state that its visits Southern China in the summer season; and Swinhoe procured it at Swatow, and says that it is supposed to breed in the Wenchang district, N.E. Hainan.1886, H.E. Dresser, A Monograph of the Meropoidæ or the Family of Bee-eaters, →OCLC, page 58
    • Entire administrative districts were ordered to adopt the same planting density, irrespective of the varying conditions within that district. Mencheong county authority in Kwangtung sent cadres to direct a collective to adopt a density known by the local peasants to be technically disastrous ( NFJP...[1968, Kenneth R. Walker, “Organization for Agricultural Production”, in Economic Trends in Communist China, Chicago: Aldine Publishing Company, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 421
    Synonyms:
    Mencheong

Synonyms of Wenchang

  • Mencheong

Forms of Wenchang

alternative formWen-ch'ang

Origin of Wenchang

From Mandarin 文昌 (Wénchāng).

Words formed from Wenchang

Questions about Wenchang

What does Wenchang mean?
Wenchang means a county-level city of Hainan, China.
What part of speech is Wenchang?
Wenchang is a proper noun.

Words near Wenchang in the dictionary

  1. Wences
  2. Wenceses
  3. Wenceslas
  4. Wenceslaus
  5. wench
  6. Wenchang
  7. Wenchang chicken
  8. wenchdom
  9. wenched
  10. wenchedst
  11. wenchen

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