Meanings
alternative Ch'eng-ch'eng
- A county of Weinan, Shaanxi, China.
Ch’eng was located south of the modern capital of Ch’eng-ch’eng County, eastern Shensi.
[1980, Cho-yun Hsu, “Farming Resources”, in Jack L. Dull, editor, Han Agriculture: The Formation of Early Chinese Agrarian Economy (206 B.C.-A.D. 220), University of Washington Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 2601 more example
Zhaojiahe is a single-surname village, which is not unusual in this area.⁸ It is under the administration of Leijiawa township, Chengcheng county, the Weinan district of Shaanxi province (see map 5).
2000, Xin Liu, In One's Own Shadow: an Ethnographic Account of the Condition of Post-reform Rural China, University of California Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 8
Origin
- Mandarin澄城
- EnglishChengcheng
From Mandarin 澄城 (Chéngchéng).
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Chinese Mandarin 澄城
- 澄城 (Chéngchéng)county
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Chengcheng. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Chengcheng
“Chengcheng.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Chengcheng. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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