fangcheng
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
A district of Fangchenggang, Guangxi autonomous region, China.
Example Sentences
- "Chang Shih-chih,⁷¹ whose style was Chi, was a native of Che-yang⁷² of the Nan-yang commandery."
- "The raid was conducted in a village about 27 miles south of Fangcheng, a city in Henan province in central China."
- "Quan Zhaoquan remembers that period well. A resident of Guan Zhuang village in Yangji Township, in Henan’s Fangcheng County, he was the village leader in 1968, a position frequently targeted by Red Guards looking for “capitalist-roaders,” as followers of Mao’s political target Liu Shaoqi were often called."
- "Guangdong Chant Group Inc. : * Says it signed biomass power project with investment at about 320 million yuan in Fangcheng County, Henan Province"
- "Finally, at the beginning of September, the commanders of the two companies of Kwangsi troops defending the unwalled district city of Fang-ch’eng, west of Ch’in-chou, abruptly defected to the revolutionary side. Why they defected is not clear. A native of Kwangsi himself, Wang may have played upon their common provincial ties; or he may have bribed them. In any case, with their help, Wang Ho-shun and several hundred followers captured Fang-ch’eng without a fight on September 3."
- "The agency also said there was an attack in Fangcheng County in Guanxi^([sic – meaning Guangxi]) Province and artillery fire directed against Yunnan Province"
Etymology
From Mandarin 方城.
Word Breakdown
- Root: 方城, 防城