Meanings
- A county of Xiaogan, Hubei, China.
In mobile phone manufacturing, Rmb800m is being invested to set up a handset production base south of Xiaochang county.
2007, The China Business Handbook 2007, 10th edition, Shenzhen: Alain Charles Publishing Ltd, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 2542 more examples
Under the Han, territory of the Hsien of An-lu ; the emperor Hsiao-wu Ti of the Sung divided the latter in order to form the Hsiao-ch’ang Hsien, dependent on the Chün of Chiang-hsia.
[1912, Northern China, The Valley of the Blue River, Korea, Hachette & Company, →OCLC, pages 386–387A group of internet users broke into an abandoned house in Xiaochang county, Hubei province, where she was kept after a local resident posted photographs showing her confinement on weibo earlier this week.
2015 February 27, Mandy Zuo, “Half-naked ‘mentally ill’ young woman rescued after family locks her up for five years”, in South China Morning Post, archived from the original on 01 Mar 2015
Origin
- Mandarin孝昌
- EnglishXiaochang
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 孝昌 (Xiàochāng).
More words from Mandarin
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Chinese Cantonese 孝昌
- 孝昌 (haau³ coeng¹)county in central China
Chinese Mandarin 孝昌
- 孝昌 (Xiàochāng)county in central China
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Xiaochang. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Xiaochang
“Xiaochang.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Xiaochang. Accessed November 4, 2026.
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