Etymograph

English

Yingcheng

Yingcheng comes from Mandarin 應城.

  1. Mandarinmodern應城Yìngchéng
  2. Englishearliest quotation 1940Yingcheng

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Mandarinmodern應城Yìngchéng
  2. Englishearliest quotation 1940Yingcheng

Earliest quotation: 1940, Lin Yu, The "China Incident": “At Hsiaochien and Lishan, too, the Japanese suffered defeats;…”

Every English word from Mandarin 應城

Another origin of Yingcheng

  1. Mandarinmodern郢城Yǐngchéng
  2. EnglishtodayYingcheng

Today it means

name A county-level city of Xiaogan, Hubei, in central China, formerly a county.

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Etymograph / Mandarin 應城 / Yingcheng

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