Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

ying-ch'eng

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.07 in modern English

Syllables: ying-ch'eng
IPA

19

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

2

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

name

Alternative form of Yingcheng.

Example Sentences

"In Hupei, at Wu-siu, about four hundred li from Hankow, salt wells are found. They are also found at Ying-chʻeng 應城, seventy or eighty miles north-west of Hankow.[…] Ying-chʻeng belongs to the prefecture of Tê-an-fu."
"In his fourteenth year, Chang was married to a girl surnamed Yü. In this same year Chang Piao was appointed magistrate of Ying-ch’eng in the lake district of Hupeh, and he moved his family there."
"For example, in Ying-chʻeng, which lay about eighty-five kilometers southwest^([sic – meaning northwest]) of Hankow, there was only one Buddhist group, the Ying-ch’eng Buddhist Society."

Etymology

From Mandarin 應城 /应城 (Yìngchéng) Wade–Giles romanization: Ying⁴-chʻêng².

Word Breakdown

Root: 應城, -

Questions

What does ying-ch'eng mean?: Alternative form of Yingcheng.
Where does ying-ch'eng come from?: From Mandarin 應城 /应城 (Yìngchéng) Wade–Giles romanization: Ying⁴-chʻêng².

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