Shangcai

Shang·cai
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proper noun

A county of Zhumadian, Henan, China.

Scrabble 14

Meanings

proper noun
  1. A county of Zhumadian, Henan, China.

    A trip with Zhao through a section of Shangcai County in southern Henan province, a region of small wheat and onion farms 600 miles south of Beijing, is a journey of sadness.

    2001 January 11, John Pomfret, “The High Cost of Selling Blood”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 31 Jan 2024
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    Shangtsai County has also applied additional fertilizer to its 170,000 mou of cotton fields. In general, the entire sorghum, corn, millet and cotton crop in Honan Province is growing well, even better than in previous years.

    [1973 August 17 [1973 August 14], “Honan Field Management”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China, volume I, number 160, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Peking NCNA Domestic Service, translation of original in Chinese, →ISSN, →OCLC, People's Republic of China: Central-South Region, page D 6

    I’m an inn boy. I run a little wine shop⁶ here at Three Mile Stop beyond the Northern Pass in Shang-ts’ai County,* where everybody traveling north and south, wheelbarrow pushers, pole bearers, merchants, and what have you, come to have a drink and stay the night.

    [1978, George A. Hayden, “P'en-erh kuei (The Ghost of the Pot)”, in Crime and Punishment in Medieval Chinese Drama: Three Judge Pao Plays, Harvard University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 85

    Working without permission, Dr. Gui Xien, a researcher from neighboring Hubei Province, drew 155 blood samples from farmers in Shangcai County in Henan, where blood selling is common; 96 of them were H.I.V. positive, including blood sellers, their spouses and children, according to another doctor familiar with the study.

    2000 October 28, Elisabeth Rosenthal, “In Rural China, a Steep Price Of Poverty: Dying of AIDS”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 10 Jun 2010, World

Origin

  1. Mandarin上蔡
  2. EnglishShangcai

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 上蔡 (Shàngcài).

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Translations

Chinese Cantonese 上蔡
  • 上蔡 (soeng⁶ coi³)county
Chinese Mandarin 上蔡
  • 上蔡 (Shàngcài)county

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APA

Shangcai. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Shangcai

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“Shangcai.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Shangcai. Accessed November 4, 2026.

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