Changwu

See also: chángwù

English

Etymology

From Mandarin 長武／长武.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /(ˈ)t͡ʃæŋˈwu/, emulating Chinese /(ˈ)t͡ʃɑŋˈu/

Proper noun

Changwu

1. A county of Xianyang, Shaanxi, China.
   • 1971, Vera Vladimirovna Vishnyakova-Akimova, translated by Steven I. Levine, Two Years in Revolutionary China, 1925-1927‎^[1], Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 137:

     In the city of Changwu on the Shensi-Kansu border he executed three commanders from the Third Nationalist Army whose brutality had provoked the Red Spear uprising.

   • 1997, Melvyn Goldstein, The Struggle for Modern Tibet: The Autobiography of Tashi Tsering‎^[2], M.E. Sharpe, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 122:

     The threat of a war—it was feared a nuclear war—between Russia and China was brewing in the later months of 1968. (Actual hostilities broke out in 1969 and the whole school was evacuated.) Because of the general threat of possible nuclear attack, those of us who were left at the school were sent to Changwu County (a six-hour drive) to help dig fallout shelters.

   • 2007, Annette L. Juliano, “Catalogue”, in Buddhist Sculpture from China: Selections from the Xi’an Beilin Museum: Fifth through Ninth Centuries‎^[3], New York: China Institute, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 43, column 1:

     Recent excavations in Dingjia village, Changwu County, Shaanxi Province, uncovered a cache of twenty-four small sandstone Buddhist steles in a variety of shapes and sizes.

Translations

county

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 長武／长武 (zh)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (2008), “Changwu”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[4], 2nd edition, volume 1, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 726, column 3

Anagrams

• Wu-ch'ang, Wu-chang, Wuchang