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Daocheng
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English
Daocheng County
Alternative forms
en Tao-ch'eng Wade-Giles
Etymology
From the en cmn-pinyin - romanization of the en cmn 稻城.
Pronunciation
dou′chŭng′Taocheng or Tao-ch’eng 1876 2
en Dao cheng
Proper noun
en county autonomous prefecture/Garzê p/Sichuan c/China.
en January 3, 2003 Wenlong Paradise Regained w:Beijing Today https://archive.org/details/BeijingTodayCN20030103/ 958634538 16 https://archive.org/details/BeijingTodayCN20030103/page/n15/ If the altitude of Daocheng (zh 稻城) County doesn’t leave tourists speechless, the magnificent mountains and meadows in the vicinity of this 4,000-meter-high plateau surely will.
en March 18, 2022 Two Sichuan sites selected as “China’s New Archaeological Discoveries in 2021” https://web.archive.org/web/20220318140753/https://apnews.com/press-release/pr-newswire/science-china-chengdu-8dd9264809b82345db7149b6a939f1ee 18 March 2022 w:AP News The Piluo site was discovered in May 2020 in Daocheng county, Sichuan province. Archaeologists found nearly 10,000 stone artifacts at the site at an altitude of 3,750 meters.
en
Synonyms
from Tibetan en Dabpa
Translations
county in west China
Chinese:
Cantonese: yue 稻城
Mandarin: cmn 稻城 Dàochéng
Japanese: ja
References
Further reading
en 2008 Daocheng Saul B. Cohen The Columbia Gazetteer of the World https://archive.org/details/columbiagazettee0000unse_l7h3/ 2nd 1 New York Columbia University Press 978-0-231-14554-1 2008009181 212893637 965 https://archive.org/details/columbiagazettee0000unse_l7h3/page/965/ 3
en 2-syllable words