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Yingcheng

Syllables: Ying·cheng

Yingcheng proper noun: a county-level city of Xiaogan, Hubei, in central China, formerly a county.

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
    • Recently the Public Health Ministry held a national on-the-spot forum on the new method of midwifery, in Hupeh's Yingcheng County.1975 December 3 [1975 December 2], “Hupeh Hold National Forum on Midwifery”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China, volume I, number 233, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from...

Proper noun (2)

Yingcheng

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

Forms of Yingcheng

alternative formYing-ch'eng

Origin of Yingcheng

From Mandarin 應城 /应城 (Yìngchéng).

From Mandarin 郢城 (Yǐngchéng).

Questions about Yingcheng

What does Yingcheng mean?
Yingcheng means a county-level city of Xiaogan, Hubei, in central China, formerly a county.
What part of speech is Yingcheng?
Yingcheng is a proper noun.

Words near Yingcheng in the dictionary

  1. Ying-k'ou
  2. Ying-shan
  3. Ying-te
  4. ying-yang
  5. ying-yangs
  6. Yingcheng
  7. Yingde
  8. yinged
  9. Yinger
  10. Yingers
  11. Yingge

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