Daocheng

English

Alternative forms

Tao-ch'eng (Wade–Giles)

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 稻城 (Dàochéng).

Proper noun

Daocheng

A county of Garzê prefecture, Sichuan, China.
- 2003 January 3, Wenlong, “Paradise Regained”, in Beijing Today‎, →OCLC, page 16:
  If the altitude of Daocheng (稻城) County doesn’t leave tourists speechless, the magnificent mountains and meadows in the vicinity of this 4,000-meter-high plateau surely will.
- 2008, Bradley Mayhew, Tibet‎, 7th edition, Lonely Planet, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 277:
  DAOCHENG (DABPA) 稻城
  0836 / pop 7000 / elev 3800m
  The county town of Daocheng (Dabpa in Tibetan) is mainly a jumping-off point for Yading Nature Reserve (right).
- 2022 March 18, “Two Sichuan sites selected as “China’s New Archaeological Discoveries in 2021””, in AP News‎, archived from the original on 18 March 2022:
  The Piluo site was discovered in May 2020 in Daocheng county, Sichuan province. Archaeologists found nearly 10,000 stone artifacts at the site at an altitude of 3,750 meters.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Daocheng.

Synonyms

(from Tibetan) Dabpa

Translations

county in west China

Chinese:
Mandarin: 稻城 (zh) (Dàochéng)
Japanese: please add this translation if you can

Further reading

Saul B. Cohen, editor (2008), “Daocheng”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎, 2nd edition, volume 1, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 965, column 3

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