wèng chéng

Traditional: 甕城

瓮城 (wèng chéng) is a Chinese word meaning “enceinte of a city gate; barbican entrance to a city”.

Meanings

  1. 1enceinte of a city gate
  2. 2barbican entrance to a city

Characters in 瓮城

瓮wèng · pottery container for water, wine etc城chéng · city walls

Related words

城市city; town城city walls城堡castle费城Philadelphia, Pennsylvania汉城Hanseong, former name of Seoul (capital of South Korea), replaced in 2005 with 首爾|首尔[Shou3 er3]城镇town进城to go to town城外outside of a city盐湖城Salt Lake City, capital of Utah城墙city wall墨西哥城Mexico City, capital of Mexico长城the Great Wall

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