Word.ws English Dictionary

Yancheng

Syllables: Yan·cheng

Yancheng proper noun: a district of Luohe, Henan, China.

Proper noun (1)

Yancheng

  1. A district of Luohe, Henan, China.

Proper noun (2)

Yancheng

  1. A prefecture-level city of Jiangsu, China.
    • Hau Pei-tsun was born on August 24, 1919 into an educated, well-to-do farming family in Yencheng County, Kiangsu Province.[1993 [1992 October 1], Hau Pei-tsun, Straight Talk, Taipei: Government Information Office, →ISBN, →OCLC, page https://archive.org/details/straighttalk0000haob/page/n16/
    • In March, 78 people were killed in a blast at a chemical plant in the eastern city of Yancheng that had numerous safety violations.2023 June 22, “Building collapses, gas blasts, mine cave-ins and more. Deadly accidents are commonplace in China”, in AP News, archived from the original on 22 Jun 2023

Proper noun (3)

Yancheng

  1. A district of Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
    • The fire broke out in the 40-year-old building in Kaohsiung's Yancheng district in the early hours of the morning and was extinguished around dawn.2021 October 14, Ben Blanchard, “More than 40 feared dead in fire in southern Taiwan”, in Peter Graff, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 14 Oct 2021, Asia Pacific
    • The fire in the city's Yancheng District was the second deadliest building fire in Taiwan after a blaze at the Weierkang Club in Taichung that killed 64 people in February 1995.2022 August 5, Hung Hsueh-kuang, Lee Hsin-Yin, “Woman gets life imprisonment for Kaohsiung building fire that killed 46”, in Focus Taiwan, archived from the original on 05 Aug 2022, Society

Forms of Yancheng

alternative formYencheng
alternative formYen-ch'eng
alternative formYen-ch'êng

Origin of Yancheng

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 郾城 (Yǎnchéng).

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 鹽城 /盐城 (Yánchéng).

From Mandarin 鹽埕／盐埕 (Yánchéng).

Questions about Yancheng

What does Yancheng mean?
Yancheng means a district of Luohe, Henan, China.
What part of speech is Yancheng?
Yancheng is a proper noun.

Words near Yancheng in the dictionary

  1. Yancey County
  2. Yanceys
  3. Yanceyville
  4. Yanchang
  5. Yanchao
  6. Yancheng
  7. Yanchi
  8. Yanco
  9. yancopin
  10. yancopins
  11. Yancy

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: Yancheng (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “Yancheng.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/yancheng. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.