Yongchang

See also: yòngcháng and yòngchǎng

English

Alternative forms

(from Wade–Giles) Yung-ch'ang

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /jɔŋ.t͡ʃæŋ/

Proper noun

Yongchang

A county of Jinchang, Gansu, in northwestern China.
- 1999, Lily Xiao Hong Lee, Sue Wiles, Women of the Long March‎, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 138:
  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.

Translations

a county in northwestern China

Chinese:
Mandarin: 永昌 (zh) (Yǒngchāng)

Anagrams

Chongyang

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