Meanings
- alternativeAlternative form of Yingcheng.
For example, in Ying-chʻeng, which lay about eighty-five kilometers southwest^([sic – meaning northwest]) of Hankow, there was only one Buddhist group, the Ying-ch’eng Buddhist Society.
1968, Holmes Welch, The Buddhist Revival in China, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 812 more examples
In Hupei, at Wu-siu, about four hundred li from Hankow, salt wells are found. They are also found at Ying-chʻeng 應城, seventy or eighty miles north-west of Hankow.[…] Ying-chʻeng belongs to the prefecture of Tê-an-fu.
1903, Joseph Edkins, “Hupei Salt Wells”, in The Revenue and Taxation of the Chinese Empire, Shanghai: Presbyterian Mission Press, →OCLC, page 213In his fourteenth year, Chang was married to a girl surnamed Yü. In this same year Chang Piao was appointed magistrate of Ying-ch’eng in the lake district of Hupeh, and he moved his family there.
1966, David S. Nivison, The Life and Thought of Chang Hsüeh-ch'eng (1738-1801), Stanford University Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 23
Origin
- Mandarin應城 /应城
- EnglishYing-ch'eng
From Mandarin 應城 /应城 (Yìngchéng) Wade–Giles romanization: Ying⁴-chʻêng².
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