Meanings
alternative Yung-ch'ang
- A county of Jinchang, Gansu, in northwestern China.
Ma Jinchang had her sent to his home in Yongchang County about 50 kilometres west of Wuwei where his chief wife, some domestic staff and about twenty guards maintained a residence which he visited periodically.
1999, Lily Xiao Hong Lee, Sue Wiles, Women of the Long March, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 1381 more example
Chen Kuo-Piao, duputy secretary of the Chenchiakou supply and marketing cooperative party branch in Yungchang County said: Our cooperative did not complete procurement of certain farm and nonstable products for the first half of 1974.
[1975 March 26 [1975 March 18], “Kansu Commercial Workers Pledge Fight Against Capitalism”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China, volume I, number 59, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Peking NCNA Domestic Service, translation of original in Chinese, →ISSN, →OCLC, People's Republic of China:, page N 1
Origin
- Mandarin永昌
- EnglishYongchang
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 永昌 (Yǒngchāng).
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Chinese Cantonese 永昌
- 永昌a county in northwestern China
Chinese Mandarin 永昌
- 永昌 (Yǒngchāng)a county in northwestern China
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Yongchang. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Yongchang
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