Wancheng

See also: wánchéng and Wānchéng

English

Etymology

From Mandarin 宛城 (Wǎnchéng).

Proper noun

Wancheng

1. A district of Nanyang, Henan, China.
   • 2004 November 16, “Five People Recently Abducted and Tried in the Wancheng District, Nanyang City, Henan Province”, in Falun Dafa - Minghui.org‎^[1], archived from the original on 16 August 2022:

     Mr. Li Yansen, 67, is a retired engineer from Bayi Manufacturing in Nanyang City. During the morning of March 5, 2004, five police officers from Wancheng District came to his home and illegally searched it without showing a warrant or identification.

   • 2012 July, Emeka C. Ekeke, “Persecution and Martyrdom of Christians in the Roman Empire from AD54 to 100: A Lesson for the 21st Century Church”, in European Journal of Scientific Research‎^[2], volume 8, number 16, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 185:

     In Henan province, in the Wancheng District of Nanyang City, another house church was raided. All occupants of the church were arrested except for one elderly woman. Two foreign pastors, one from the United States and the other from Russia, both present at the time of the raid, were arrested along with their translator. Ma Hanzhong, a member of the house church and arrested with the others was beaten. The location of the two foreign pastors are unknown at this time (p.4).

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Wancheng.

Translations

district

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 宛城 (zh) (Wǎnchéng)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can

Anagrams

• Wenchang