Fanchang

English

Etymology

From Mandarin 繁昌 (Fánchāng).

Pronunciation

  • enPR: fänʹchängʹ[1]

Proper noun

Fanchang

  1. A district of Wuhu, Anhui, China.
    • 1939 May 20, Agnes Smedley, “China's Refugee Millions, Stricken By Hunger and Disease, Call for Aid”, in The China Weekly Review‎[2], volume 88, number 12, →OCLC, page 378, column 1:
      The plight of millions of refugees behind the Chinese lines and the urgent need for organized relief and medical aid on a large scale are brought out in the following eye-witness account of conditions in the Yangtsze River valley region to the west of Wuhu, particularly in Fanchang hsien.
    • 2012 December 4, “China Digest, December 4, 2012”, in South China Morning Post‎[3], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 29 October 2023, China‎[4]:
      A 64-year-old man, wanted for trafficking more than 300 women, was recently caught after being on the run for 20 years, the reports. Police from the man's hometown of Dingyuan county, Chuzhou, found him in Fanchang county, Wuhu.

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References

  1. ^ Leon E. Seltzer, editor (1952), “Fanchang or Fan-ch’ang”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World‎[1], Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 603, column 1
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