Xicheng

See also: Xīchéng

English

Alternative forms

• Hsi-ch'eng (Wade–Giles)

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʃiːˈt͡ʃʌŋ/

Proper noun

Xicheng

1. A district in downtown Beijing, China, comprising the sections immediately west of the Forbidden City.
   • 1983, Clifton W. Pannell, Laurence J. C. Ma, China: The Geography of Development and Modernization‎^[1], V. H. Winston & Sons, →ISBN, page 85:

     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.

   • 1989, Yi Mu, Mark V. Thompson, Crisis at Tiananmen: Reform and Reality in Modern China‎^[2], San Francisco: China Books, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 229:

     In Xixingsheng lane of the Xicheng District, more than 20 armed policemen were beaten up by mobs; some were badly injured, and the others’ whereabouts are unknown.

   • 2000, J. D. Brown, Beijing (Frommer's)‎^[3], Foster City, CA: IDG Books, →ISBN, →ISSN, →OCLC, →OL, page 36:

     Xicheng The sector immediately west of the Forbidden City, Xicheng is the site of some of the most extensive old hutong (alleyway) neighborhoods left in Beijing.

   • 2021 October 30, “China cracks down over 'serious' Covid outbreak”, in France 24‎^[4], archived from the original on 30 October 2021:

     In Beijing, authorities ordered all cinemas closed until November 14 in the capital's Xicheng district, which lies west of Tiananmen Square and is home to over a million people.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Xicheng.
2. a subdistrict in Zengdu, Suizhou, Hubei, China
3. a subdistrict in Jingzhou, Jingzhou, Hubei, China

Translations

district; subdistricts

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 西城 (zh) (Xīchéng)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can

See also

• Dongcheng

Further reading

• Xicheng, Hsi-ch'eng, Hsi-cheng, Hsicheng at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.