Cheng'an

Cheng'an

English

Alternative forms

• Chengan

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 成安 (Chéng'ān).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t͡ʃɛŋ.ɑn/, /t͡ʃɑŋ-/, /-æn/

Proper noun

Cheng'an

1. A county of Handan, Hebei, China.
   • 2015 April 24, McKirdy, Euan, “What a send-off: China's funeral strippers told to cover up”, in CNN‎, archived from the original on 24 April 2015:

     Photos obtained by CNN from an attendee at a village funeral in Cheng'an County in Hebei Province show mourners of all ages, including children, watching the performance.
     The attendee, who asked not to be identified, said he was visiting family during the Lunar New Year holiday. While he was there, one of the elderly villagers died so he went to the funeral.

Translations

county

Chinese: Mandarin: 成安 (zh) (Chéng'ān) Japanese: please add this translation if you can Korean: 성안 (seong'an) Macedonian: please add this translation if you can Russian: Чэнъа́нь m (Čɛnʺánʹ) Vietnamese: Thành An (vi)