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Xicheng

Syllables: Xi·cheng/ʃiːˈt͡ʃʌŋ/

Xicheng proper noun: a district in downtown Beijing, China, comprising the sections immediately west of the Forbidden City.

Proper noun

Xicheng

  1. A district in downtown Beijing, China, comprising the sections immediately west of the Forbidden City.
    • The city of Peking has 85 neighborhoods, each with more than 50,000 residents (Luo, 1980). The Fengsheng Neighborhood in the Xicheng District of Peking, for example, has 14,136 families and 52,978 persons.1983, Clifton W. Pannell, Laurence J. C. Ma, China: The Geography of Development and Modernization, V. H. Winston & Sons, →ISBN, page 85
    • In Xixingsheng lane of the Xicheng District, more than 20 armed policemen were beaten up by mobs; some were badly injured, and the others’ whereabouts are unknown.1989, Yi Mu, Mark V. Thompson, Crisis at Tiananmen: Reform and Reality in Modern China, San Francisco: China Books, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 229
  2. a subdistrict in Zengdu, Suizhou, Hubei, China
  3. a subdistrict in Jingzhou, Jingzhou, Hubei, China

Examples of Xicheng in a sentence

  • Xicheng The sector immediately west of the Forbidden City, Xicheng is the site of some of the most extensive old hutong (alleyway) neighborhoods left in Beijing.2000, J. D. Brown, Beijing (Frommer's), Foster City, CA: IDG Books, →ISBN, →ISSN, →OCLC, →OL, page 36:
  • In Beijing, authorities ordered all cinemas closed until November 14 in the capital's Xicheng district, which lies west of Tiananmen Square and is home to over a million people.2021 October 30, “China cracks down over 'serious' Covid outbreak”, in France 24, archived from the original on 30 Oct 2021:

Forms of Xicheng

alternative formHsi-ch'eng

Origin of Xicheng

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin Chinese 西城 (Xīchéng, literally “west city”).

Questions about Xicheng

What does Xicheng mean?
Xicheng means a district in downtown Beijing, China, comprising the sections immediately west of the Forbidden City.
How do you use Xicheng in a sentence?
Xicheng The sector immediately west of the Forbidden City, Xicheng is the site of some of the most extensive old hutong (alleyway) neighborhoods left in Beijing.
What part of speech is Xicheng?
Xicheng is a proper noun.
How do you pronounce Xicheng?
Xicheng is pronounced /ʃiːˈt͡ʃʌŋ/.

Words near Xicheng in the dictionary

  1. Xicanxs
  2. Xicaque
  3. Xicaquean
  4. Xicaques
  5. Xichang
  6. Xicheng
  7. Xichou
  8. Xichuan
  9. Xico
  10. Xiden
  11. Xie

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