Zichang

Zi·chang
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/ˌ(d)zɪˈtʃɑŋ/

proper noun

A county-level city of Yan'an, Shaanxi, China, formerly a county.

Scrabble 22

Meanings

proper noun
  1. A county-level city of Yan'an, Shaanxi, China, formerly a county.

    Zichang county lies between Yan'an and the Great Wall; it is open range country with plenty of land but few people.

    1985, Frank Leeming, Rural China Today, Longman, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 401
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    By 1940 Hsu was identified as a deputy director of the Party Central Committee's Propaganda Department, a post he was to hold for about two decades. From late in the next year until 1946, he also served as a representative from An-ting (now Tzu-ch’ang) hsien, located north of Yenan, in the Second Assembly of the Shensi-Kansu-Ninghsia Border Region Government.

    [1971, Donald W. Klein, Anne B. Clark, “Hsu T’e-li”, in Biographic Dictionary of Chinese Communism 1921-1965 (Harvard East Asian Series), volume I, Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 364, column 2

    'Continuing our tour, we arrived at night at Tzuchang, north of Yenan in Shensi province. Before turning in we had a look around. It was bright moonlight and all around the sides of the valley flames of charcoal-burning and iron-smelting leaped up.

    [1976, Wilfred Burchett, “In Case of War”, in China: The Quality of Life, Penguin Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 166

    Wayaobao Revolutionary Sites in Zichang County include more than 20 cave houses, the site of the Wayaobao meeting, and living spaces of Mao Zedong, Zhou Enlai and Liu Shaoqi.

    2008, Chen Xuejian, editor, Travel Around China, HarperCollins, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 316

Origin

  1. Mandarin子長 /子长
  2. EnglishZichang

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 子長 /子长 (Zǐcháng, literally “Zichang, name of 謝子長 (Xie Zichang)”).

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Translations

Chinese Mandarin 子長 /子长
  • 子長 /子长 (Zǐcháng)county-level city

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APA

Zichang. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Zichang

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“Zichang.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Zichang. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

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