Xuchang

Xuchang

English

Alternative forms

• (postal romanization) Hsuchang
• (from Wade–Giles) Hsu-ch'ang, Hsü-ch'ang

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 許昌／许昌 (Xǔchāng).

Proper noun

Xuchang

1. A prefecture-level city in Henan, China.
   • [2007, Taylor, Brian, “Chiang Kai-shek and the Loss of China”, in Washington College International Studies Review‎, volume IV, page 72:

     Chiang habitually failed to take the advice of competent strategists. One especially harmful display of this tendency came in 1948 when, against the advice of his staff and American advisers, he massed more than fifty divisions around Hsuchang to prevent Communist forces from dominating central China. The result was a complete disaster in which 550,000 Nationalist soldiers were lost, an estimated 325,000 as prisoners.]

Translations

prefecture-level city in central China

Chinese: Cantonese: 許昌, 许昌 (heoi2 coeng1) Mandarin: 許昌 (zh), 许昌 (zh) (Xǔchāng) Japanese: please add this translation if you can