Macheng

See also: Ma-ch'eng

English

Alternative forms

Ma-ch'eng (Wade–Giles)

Etymology

The Postal Map romanization romanization of the Mandarin 麻城 (Máchéng).

Proper noun

Macheng

A county-level city in Huanggang, Hubei, China.
- 1943 January 4, “JAPS CAPTURE MACHENG”, in The Bombay Chronicle‎, volume XXXI, number 2, Bombay, page 1:
  A Chinese Communique reports that the Japanese have captured Macheng in eastern Hupeh.
- 2007 May 28, “China bus plunge kills seven children”, in Reuters‎, archived from the original on 10 May 2022, Latest Crisis:
  The minibus was hit by a truck loaded with bricks in Macheng in Hubei province, Xinhua said. Fourteen children were injured.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Macheng.
A town in Duodao district, Jingmen, Hubei, China.

Translations

a county-level city in central China; a town in central China

Chinese:
Mandarin: 麻城 (zh) (Máchéng)
Japanese: please add this translation if you can

Further reading

Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Macheng”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎, volume 2, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1822, column 2

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