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Echeng

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Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization for the Mandarin 鄂城 (Èchéng).

  1. borrowed from 鄂城

Definitions

  1. A district of Ezhou, Hubei, China.

    • Japanese warships were said to have passed the boom at Hwangkang and Ocheng, 95 kilometres downstream below Hankow, and to be about to break the boom at Twanfeng, 70 kms. down river from Hankow.
    • Yesterday Ms Yuan recalled how she was forced to become what the Japanese called a 'comfort woman' when she left her family in Hankou to work at a Japanese hostel in Echeng in July 1940.

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