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Ying-ch'eng

Ying-ch'eng is the alternative form of Yingcheng.

Meaning of Yingcheng

Proper noun (1)

Yingcheng

  1. A county-level city of Xiaogan, Hubei, in central China, formerly a county.
    • At Hsiaochien and Lishan, too, the Japanese suffered defeats; at Chunghsiang they were attacked. Their attack on Yingcheng, northern part of the province, ended in a retreat, and they announced that they would evacuate Macheng, east of Yingcheng.1940 April, Lin Yu, “The "China Incident"”, in Philippine Magazine, volume XXXVII, number 4 (384), →OCLC, page 144

Proper noun (2)

Yingcheng

  1. A town in Jingzhou district, Jingzhou, Hubei, in central China.

Origin of Ying-ch'eng

From Mandarin 應城 /应城 (Yìngchéng) Wade–Giles romanization: Ying⁴-chʻêng².

Questions about Ying-ch'eng

What is Ying-ch'eng the alternative form of?
Ying-ch'eng is the alternative form of Yingcheng.

Words near Ying-ch'eng in the dictionary

  1. Yindu
  2. Yine
  3. ying
  4. ying yang
  5. ying yangs
  6. Ying-ch'eng
  7. Ying-chi-sha
  8. Ying-k'ou
  9. Ying-shan
  10. Ying-te
  11. ying-yang

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Ying-ch'eng (page history and authors); Yingcheng (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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