Etymology

Xichang

Xi·chang
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Today it means: A county-level city of Liangshan prefecture, Sichuan, China. Full definition →

Chinese 西昌
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The story

  1. Chinese · derived from西昌“Western Prosperity”
  2. English todayXichang

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Chinese 西昌 (Xīchāng, “Western Prosperity”).

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