Etymology

Yuecheng

Yue·cheng
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Today it means: A downtown district in Shaoxing, Zhejiang, China, corresponding to the former Yue and imperial Chinese city of Kuaiji. Full definition →

Mandarin 越城
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The story

  1. Mandarin · borrowed from越城
  2. English todayYuecheng

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 越城 (Yuèchéng, literally “Yue City”).

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