Yingcheng

• (from Wade–Giles) Ying-ch'eng

From Mandarin 應城／应城 (Yìngchéng).

Yingcheng

1. A county-level city in Xiaogan, Hubei, in central China.
   • 1940 April, Lin Yu, “The "China Incident"”, in Philippine Magazine‎, volume XXXVII, number 4 (384), →OCLC, page 144:

     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.

• Leon E. Seltzer, editor (1952), “Yingcheng or Ying-ch’eng”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World‎, Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 2124, column 1

From Mandarin 郢城 (Yǐngchéng).

Yingcheng

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