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Yongchang en · PROPN

Pronunciation

  • yo͝ongʹchängʹ
  • /jɔŋ.t͡ʃæŋ/

Etymology

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

Meanings

  1. A county of Jinchang, Gansu, in northwestern China.
    • Chen Kuo-Piao, duputy secretary of the Chenchiakou supply and marketing cooperative party branch in Yungchang County said: Our cooperative did not complete procurement of certain farm and nonstable products for the first half of 1974. [1975 March 26 [1975 March 18], “Kansu Commercial Workers Pledge Fight Against Capitalism”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China, volume I, number 59, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Peking NCNA Domestic Service, translation of original in Chinese, →ISSN, →OCLC, People's Republic of China:, page N 1:
    • 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. 1999, Lily Xiao Hong Lee, Sue Wiles, Women of the Long March, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 138:

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Yung-ch'ang alternative lexicographic

Translations (2)

cmn 永昌 (a county in northwestern China) · yue 永昌 (a county in northwestern China)

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