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Zichang

Syllables: Zi·chang/ˌ(d)zɪˈtʃɑŋ/

Zichang proper noun: a county-level city of Yan'an, Shaanxi, China, formerly a county.

Proper noun

Zichang

  1. A county-level city of Yan'an, Shaanxi, China, formerly a county.
    • By 1940 Hsu was identified as a deputy director of the Party Central Committee's Propaganda Department, a post he was to hold for about two decades. From late in the next year until 1946, he also served as a representative from An-ting (now Tzu-ch’ang) hsien, located north of Yenan, in the Second...[1971, Donald W. Klein, Anne B. Clark, “Hsu T’e-li”, in Biographic Dictionary of Chinese Communism 1921-1965 (Harvard East Asian Series), volume I, Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press...
    • 'Continuing our tour, we arrived at night at Tzuchang, north of Yenan in Shensi province. Before turning in we had a look around. It was bright moonlight and all around the sides of the valley flames of charcoal-burning and iron-smelting leaped up.[1976, Wilfred Burchett, “In Case of War”, in China: The Quality of Life, Penguin Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 166

Examples of Zichang in a sentence

  • Zichang county lies between Yan'an and the Great Wall; it is open range country with plenty of land but few people.1985, Frank Leeming, Rural China Today, Longman, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 401:
  • Wayaobao Revolutionary Sites in Zichang County include more than 20 cave houses, the site of the Wayaobao meeting, and living spaces of Mao Zedong, Zhou Enlai and Liu Shaoqi.2008, Chen Xuejian, editor, Travel Around China, HarperCollins, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 316:

Origin of Zichang

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 子長 /子长 (Zǐcháng, literally “Zichang, name of 謝子長 (Xie Zichang)”).

Questions about Zichang

What does Zichang mean?
Zichang means a county-level city of Yan'an, Shaanxi, China, formerly a county.
How do you use Zichang in a sentence?
Zichang county lies between Yan'an and the Great Wall; it is open range country with plenty of land but few people.
What part of speech is Zichang?
Zichang is a proper noun.
How do you pronounce Zichang?
Zichang is pronounced /ˌ(d)zɪˈtʃɑŋ/.

Words near Zichang in the dictionary

  1. zibib
  2. zibibs
  3. Zibit
  4. Zibo
  5. zibotentan
  6. Zichang
  7. Zichyújfalu
  8. Zick
  9. Zickefoose
  10. Zickefooses
  11. Zicks

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