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Yongchang

Syllables: Yong·chang/jɔŋ.t͡ʃæŋ/

Yongchang proper noun: a county of Jinchang, Gansu, in northwestern China.

Proper noun

Yongchang

  1. A county of Jinchang, Gansu, in northwestern China.
    • Chen Kuo-Piao, duputy secretary of the Chenchiakou supply and marketing cooperative party branch in Yungchang County said: Our cooperative did not complete procurement of certain farm and nonstable products for the first half of 1974.[1975 March 26 [1975 March 18], “Kansu Commercial Workers Pledge Fight Against Capitalism”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China, volume I, number 59, Foreign Broadcast Information Service...
    • Ma Jinchang had her sent to his home in Yongchang County about 50 kilometres west of Wuwei where his chief wife, some domestic staff and about twenty guards maintained a residence which he visited periodically.1999, Lily Xiao Hong Lee, Sue Wiles, Women of the Long March, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 138

Forms of Yongchang

alternative formYung-ch'ang

Origin of Yongchang

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 永昌 (Yǒngchāng).

Questions about Yongchang

What does Yongchang mean?
Yongchang means a county of Jinchang, Gansu, in northwestern China.
What part of speech is Yongchang?
Yongchang is a proper noun.
How do you pronounce Yongchang?
Yongchang is pronounced /jɔŋ.t͡ʃæŋ/.

Words near Yongchang in the dictionary

  1. yong tau fu
  2. yong tofu
  3. Yong'an
  4. Yongan
  5. yongchak
  6. Yongchang
  7. Yongcheng
  8. Yongchuan
  9. Yongchun
  10. Yongdae Gap
  11. Yongding

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