Xinzheng

Xin·zheng
X8I1N1Z10H4E1N1G2

proper noun

A county-level city of Zhengzhou, Henan, China.

Scrabble 28

Meanings

proper noun

alternative Hsincheng

  1. A county-level city of Zhengzhou, Henan, China.

    Xinzheng City, outside Zhengzhou, has built the Xuanyuan Temple and a museum dedicated to the Yellow Emperor, in honour of the time he spent at Xuanyuan Hill, to which he lent one of his names.

    2015 May 26, Sascha Matuszak, “Cradle of civilisation”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 27 Sep 2021
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    Tight and dense motifs occur on bronzes excavated in 1923 from a tomb at Lijialou at Xinzheng Xian in southern Henan attributed to the small state of Zheng. [...]The special interest of the Xinzheng bronzes is their diversity.

    1987, Jessica Rawson, “The Eastern Zhou Period”, in Chinese Bronzes: Art and Ritual, British Museum Publications, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 47

Origin

  1. Mandarin新鄭 /新郑
  2. EnglishXinzheng

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 新鄭 /新郑 (Xīnzhèng).

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Translations

Chinese Cantonese 新鄭 /新郑
  • 新鄭 /新郑 (san¹ zeng⁶)county-level city
Chinese Mandarin 新鄭 /新郑
  • 新鄭 /新郑 (Xīnzhèng)county-level city

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APA

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MLA

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Chicago

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