Yün-ch'eng
English

Map including Yün-ch'eng (DMA, 1975)
Etymology
From Mandarin 運城/运城 (Yùnchéng) Wade–Giles romanization: Yün⁴-chʻêng².
Proper noun
Yün-ch'eng
- Alternative form of Yuncheng
- 1972, Bohr, Paul Richard, Famine in China and the Missionary; Timothy Richard as Relief Administrator and Advocate of National Reform, 1876-1884, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 47:
- Confining his activities primarily to the important salt trading city of Yün-ch'eng, Yen proved himself a conscientious supervisor of relief.
- [1992, Adshead, Samuel Adrian Miles, Salt and Civilization, St. Martin's Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 341:
- Again, in Ho-tung, the yün-shang paid tax to the salt controller at Yun-ch'eng before he obtained his salt at the lake.]
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Translations
Yuncheng — see Yuncheng
Further reading
- Leon E. Seltzer, editor (1952), “Yüncheng or Yün-ch’eng”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World, Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 2130, column 3
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