Machengとは 意味・読み方・使い方

別の表記

• Ma-ch'eng (Wade–Giles)

語源

The Postal Map romanization romanization of the Mandarin 麻城 (Máchéng).

固有名詞

Macheng

1. A county-level city in Huanggang, Hubei, China.
   • [1669 [1665], John Nievhoff, translated by John Ogilby, An Embassy from the Eaſt-India Company of the United Provinces, to the Grand Tartar Cham Emperour of China‎, London: John Macock, translation of original in Dutch, →OCLC, page 14:

     Hoangcheu commands over nine Cities, as Hoangcheu, Lotien, Maching, Hoangpi, Hoanggan, Kixui, Ki, Hoangmui, Hoangci.]

   • 1943 January 4, “JAPS CAPTURE MACHENG”, in The Bombay Chronicle‎, volume XXXI, number 2, Bombay, page 1:

     A Chinese Communique reports that the Japanese have captured Macheng in eastern Hupeh.

   • 2007 May 28, “China bus plunge kills seven children”, in Reuters‎, archived from the original on 10 May 2022, Latest Crisis:

     The minibus was hit by a truck loaded with bricks in Macheng in Hubei province, Xinhua said. Fourteen children were injured.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Macheng.
2. A town in Duodao district, Jingmen, Hubei, China.

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Macheng”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎, volume 2, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1822, column 2