Meanings
- alternativeAlternative form of Yuncheng.
Again, in Ho-tung, the yün-shang paid tax to the salt controller at Yun-ch'eng before he obtained his salt at the lake.
[1992, Samuel Adrian Miles Adshead, Salt and Civilization, St. Martin's Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 3412 more examples
Confining his activities primarily to the important salt trading city of Yün-ch'eng, Yen proved himself a conscientious supervisor of relief.
1972, Paul Richard Bohr, Famine in China and the Missionary; Timothy Richard as Relief Administrator and Advocate of National Reform, 1876-1884, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 47Since the state of Chao sent troops to Shih-men to the assistance of the state of Wei in the year in question, the other suggestion, that Shih-men was located to the southwest of today’s Yün-ch'eng 運城 in Shansi, should be taken as the correct one.
1977, Yang K'uan, “The Age in Which Shang Yang Was Born”, in Shang Yang's Reforms and State Control in China, M. E. Sharpe, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 19
Origin
- Mandarin運城 /运城
- EnglishYün-ch'eng
From Mandarin 運城 /运城 (Yùnchéng) Wade–Giles romanization: Yün⁴-chʻêng².
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