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Yen-ch'eng

Yen-ch'eng is the alternative form of Yancheng.

Meaning of Yancheng

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/

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

Origin of Yen-ch'eng

From Mandarin 鹽城 /盐城 (Yánchéng) Wade–Giles romanization: Yen²-chʻêng².

Questions about Yen-ch'eng

What is Yen-ch'eng the alternative form of?
Yen-ch'eng is the alternative form of Yancheng.

Words near Yen-ch'eng in the dictionary

  1. yen poks
  2. yen she
  3. yen shee
  4. yen sleep
  5. Yen-an
  6. Yen-ch'eng
  7. Yen-ching
  8. yen-hock
  9. yen-hocks
  10. yen-hok
  11. yen-hoks

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: Yen-ch'eng (page history and authors); 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.

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