Xicheng

//ʃiːˈt͡ʃʌŋ// name

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Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A district in downtown Beijing, China, comprising the sections immediately west of the Forbidden City.

    "The city of Peking has 85 neighborhoods, each with more than 50,000 residents (Luo, 1980). The Fengsheng Neighborhood in the Xicheng District of Peking, for example, has 14,136 families and 52,978 persons."

  2. 2
    a subdistrict in Zengdu, Suizhou, Hubei, China
  3. 3
    a subdistrict in Jingzhou, Jingzhou, Hubei, China

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"The city of Peking has 85 neighborhoods, each with more than 50,000 residents (Luo, 1980). The Fengsheng Neighborhood in the Xicheng District of Peking, for example, has 14,136 families and 52,978 persons."

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin Chinese 西城 (Xīchéng, literally “west city”).

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forbidden city

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