Wu-ch'ing

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English

Map including Wu-ch'ing (Yang-ts'un) (DMA, 1975)

Etymology

From Mandarin 武清 (Wǔqīng) Wade–Giles romanization: Wu³-chʻing¹.

Proper noun

Wu-ch'ing

  1. Alternative form of Wuqing
    • 1978, Barbara Riefe, Fire and Flesh (Fiction), Playboy Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 341:
      He brought out the map, holding it on his knee with the heel of his hand and indicating a cross approximately midway between the two cities. “Here’s a town we might lay over: Wu-ch’ing.”[...]She let the subject drop. “If you like, we can get horses up ahead in Wu-ch’ing,” he added.
    • 1982, Albert Chan, The Glory and Fall of the Ming Dynasty, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 250:
      Let us take as a concrete example Ho-hsi-wu 河西務 which is located beside the Grand Canal in the Wu-ch’ing 武淸 district, present Hopei province. Ever since the days of the Yüan dynasty it had been recognized as an important center of communications and hundreds of cargo boats went through it every day.

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