Ying-ch'eng

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

Ying-ch'eng

1. Alternative form of Yingcheng
   • 1903, Joseph Edkins, “Hupei Salt Wells”, in The Revenue and Taxation of the Chinese Empire‎, Shanghai: Presbyterian Mission Press, →OCLC, page 213:

     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.

   • 1966, David S. Nivison, The Life and Thought of Chang Hsüeh-ch'eng (1738-1801)‎, Stanford University Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 23:

     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.

   • 1968, Holmes Welch, The Buddhist Revival in China‎, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 81:

     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.