Xuancheng
Syllables: Xuan·cheng
Xuancheng proper noun: a prefecture-level city of Anhui, China.
Proper noun
Xuancheng
- A prefecture-level city of Anhui, China.
- On that very day half of a large Japanese force was trapped and completely destroyed near Hsuancheng in East China, 80 miles south of Nanking. It was a Chinese victory which not only helped along the celebration of Double-Ten Day, but added the right note to another important event of the moment...[1943 October 18, “Double-Ten Day”, in Pathfinder, Washington, D.C.: Pathfinder Company, →OCLC, page 13, column 2
- Trees and houses are submerged by floodwater in a village in Xuancheng, in east China’s Anhui province.2016 July 21, Angela Fritz, “This year’s monsoon floods are the second-costliest on record in China”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 22 Jul 2016, Capital Weather...
Forms of Xuancheng
| alternative form | Hsuanch'eng |
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Origin of Xuancheng
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 宣城 (Xuānchéng).
Questions about Xuancheng
- What does Xuancheng mean?
- Xuancheng means a prefecture-level city of Anhui, China.
- What part of speech is Xuancheng?
- Xuancheng is a proper noun.
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