Yün-ch'eng

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English

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Map including Yün-ch'eng (DMA, 1975)

Etymology

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From Mandarin 運城运城 (Yùnchéng) Wade–Giles romanization: Yün⁴-chʻêng².

Proper noun

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Yün-ch'eng

  1. Alternative form of Yuncheng
    • 1972, Paul Richard Bohr, Famine in China and the Missionary; Timothy Richard as Relief Administrator and Advocate of National Reform, 1876-1884[1], Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 47:
      Confining his activities primarily to the important salt trading city of Yün-ch'eng, Yen proved himself a conscientious supervisor of relief.
    • 1977, Yang K'uan, “The Age in Which Shang Yang Was Born”, in Shang Yang's Reforms and State Control in China[2], M. E. Sharpe, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 19:
      Since 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.
    • [1992, Samuel Adrian Miles Adshead, Salt and Civilization[3], St. Martin's Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 341:
      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.]

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