Xiangcheng

• (from Wade–Giles) Hsiang-ch'eng

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin pronunciation for 襄城 (Xiāngchéng).

Xiangcheng

1. A district of Xiangyang, Hubei, China.
2. A county of Xuchang, Henan, China.
   • [1964 January, “Tombs 1,800-Year-Old”, in Eastern Horizon‎, volume III, number 1, Hong Kong: Eastern Horizon Press, ISSN 0012-8813, OCLC 751117974, page 68, column 1:

     Two 1,800-year-old tombs, one of them in a rare architectural style, have recently been unearthed in Honan province, Central China. Many well-preserved stone reliefs, murals, calligraphy and funeral objects were found in the two tombs.
     Of great interest to archæologists is a tomb in Hsiangcheng county which was built in 132 BC during the Han dynasty (206 BC—220 AD).]

From Mandarin 項城／项城 (Xiàngchéng).

Xiangcheng

1. A county-level city in Zhoukou, Henan, China.
   • 2007 July 11, “China hits back at defiant polluters”, in Reuters‎, archived from the original on 01 August 2022, Latest Crisis:

     In Xiangcheng city, Henan province, site of a huge monosodium glutamate plant, factories were not connected to the waste water treatment plant.

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