Wenchang
Hello, you have come here looking for the meaning of the word Wenchang. In DICTIOUS you will not only get to know all the dictionary meanings for the word Wenchang, but we will also tell you about its etymology, its characteristics and you will know how to say Wenchang in singular and plural. Everything you need to know about the word Wenchang you have here. The definition of the word Wenchang will help you to be more precise and correct when speaking or writing your texts. Knowing the definition ofWenchang, as well as those of other words, enriches your vocabulary and provides you with more and better linguistic resources.
For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Wenchang.
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
Proper noun
Wenchang
- A county-level city in Hainan, China.
- 1886, H.E. Dresser, A Monograph of the Meropoidæ or the Family of Bee-eaters, →OCLC, page 58:
- Messrs. David and Oustalet state that its visits Southern China in the summer season; and Swinhoe procured it at Swatow, and says that it is supposed to breed in the Wenchang district, N.E. Hainan.
- , Chicago: Aldine Publishing Company, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 421:
- Entire administrative districts were ordered to adopt the same planting density, irrespective of the varying conditions within that district. Mencheong county authority in Kwangtung sent cadres to direct a collective to adopt a density known by the local peasants to be technically disastrous ( NFJP , June 26, 1956).]
- 1978 June 4, L. Chen, “Has Peiping made changes?”, in Free China Weekly, volume XIX, number 22, Taipei, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 3:
- The highlight of the article is that the mass education measures used at Wenchang of Hainan Island were “teaching, criticism, debate, struggle, arrest and execution.” (Begin translation)
When this anti-revolutionary revisionist element Lin Li-ming returned to Hainan, he made his native place Wenchang the “key point county” of his work and designated the Chengchiao (Township Outskirts) Commune as the focus of that key point.
2022 April 16, “Chinese astronauts land after 6 months on space station”, in AP News, archived from the original on 16 April 2022:
- On Tuesday, President Xi Jinping visited the launch site in Wenchang on the southern island of Hainan from which the Tianhe module was fired into orbit.
Synonyms
Derived terms
Translations
Further reading
- Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Wenchang”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World, volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 3435, column 2
- Wenchang, Wen-ch'ang, Wen-chang at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.