Meanings
- A county of Weinan, Shaanxi, China.
Little is known about Yang Hu-ch’eng’s family background or early life except that he was born in Pucheng, Shensi, and that he became a bandit.
1971, “Yang Hu-ch'eng”, in Biographical Dictionary of Republican China, volume IV, Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 62 more examples
A woman was jailed for 15 years in Weinan for helping her father blow up a bus in Pucheng county in January in a failed attempt to kill his wife,[…]reports.
2014 November 8, Huifeng He, “Mystery of boy tied to lamp post; Daughter helped dad in bid to kill mum with bomb”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 23 Nov 2014, China InsiderA resident in Pucheng, in the northwestern province of Shaanxi, complained on the local government’s online messaging board in February that there was no bus service between downtown and the railway station.
2023 March 28, Li Yuan, “China’s Cities Are Buried in Debt, but They Keep Shoveling It On”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 28 Mar 2023, Business
Origin
- Mandarin蒲城
- EnglishPucheng
From Mandarin 蒲城.
More words from Mandarin
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Chinese Cantonese 蒲城
- 蒲城county
Chinese Mandarin 蒲城
- 蒲城county
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Pucheng. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Pucheng
“Pucheng.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Pucheng. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Pucheng,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Pucheng.
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