Xiaochang

See also: xiǎocháng, xiǎochàng, Xiàochāng, xiàochǎng, and xiàocháng

English

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 孝昌 (Xiàochāng).

Proper noun

Xiaochang

1. A county of Xiaogan, Hubei, China.
   • [1912, Northern China, The Valley of the Blue River, Korea‎^[1], Hachette & Company, →OCLC, pages 386–387‎^[2]:

     Under the Han, territory of the Hsien of An-lu ; the emperor Hsiao-wu Ti of the Sung divided the latter in order to form the Hsiao-ch’ang Hsien, dependent on the Chün of Chiang-hsia.]

   • 2007, The China Business Handbook 2007‎^[3], 10th edition, Shenzhen: Alain Charles Publishing Ltd, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 254:

     In mobile phone manufacturing, Rmb800m is being invested to set up a handset production base south of Xiaochang county.

   • 2015 February 27, Mandy Zuo, “Half-naked ‘mentally ill’ young woman rescued after family locks her up for five years”, in South China Morning Post‎^[4], archived from the original on March 1, 2015:

     A group of internet users broke into an abandoned house in Xiaochang county, Hubei province, where she was kept after a local resident posted photographs showing her confinement on weibo earlier this week.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Xiaochang.

Translations

county in central China

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 孝昌 (zh) (Xiàochāng)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can

Further reading

• Xiaochang, Hsiao-ch'ang, Hsiao-chang, Hsiaochang at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.