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

  1. 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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