Macheng
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See also: Ma-ch'eng
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
The Postal Map romanization romanization of the Mandarin 麻城 (Máchéng).
Proper noun
Macheng
- A county-level city in Huanggang, Hubei, China.
- 1943 January 4, “JAPS CAPTURE MACHENG”, in The Bombay Chronicle, volume XXXI, number 2, Bombay, page 1:
- A Chinese Communique reports that the Japanese have captured Macheng in eastern Hupeh.
- 2007 May 28, “China bus plunge kills seven children”, in Reuters, archived from the original on 10 May 2022, Latest Crisis:
- The minibus was hit by a truck loaded with bricks in Macheng in Hubei province, Xinhua said. Fourteen children were injured.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Macheng.
- A town in Duodao district, Jingmen, Hubei, China.
Translations
a county-level city in central China; a town in central China
Further reading
- Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Macheng”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World, volume 2, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1822, column 2