Chengdu

See also: chéngdu, chéngdù, and Chéngdū

English

Alternative forms

• Ch'eng-tu, Ch'êng-tu (Wade–Giles)
• Chengtu

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 成都 (Chéngdū), supposedly bestowed upon it during its first founding by the ninth king of the Shu Kingdom's Kaiming dynasty when he removed his court there from nearby Pi County.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t͡ʃɛŋ.du/, /t͡ʃʌŋ-/, /t͡ʃɑŋ-/, /t͡ʃæŋ-/, enPR: chǔngʹdo͞oʹ

Proper noun

Chengdu

1. A subprovincial city, the provincial capital of Sichuan, in southwestern China.
   • 2020 July 24, Keith Bradsher, Steven Lee Myers, “China Orders U.S. to Shut Consulate in Chengdu, Retaliating for Houston”, in The New York Times‎^[2], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 24 July 2020, Asia Pacific‎^[3]:

     As the United States lashed out against the “new tyranny” of China, Beijing on Friday ordered the closure of the American consulate in Chengdu, a retaliatory move that threatens to drive the two powers into an even deeper divide.
     Beijing blamed the Trump administration for the deterioration in relations, calling its own action justified after Washington told China this week to shutter its consulate in Houston and accused its diplomats of acting illegally. A Chinese official, in turn, denounced American diplomats in Chengdu, a southwestern city, for interfering in China’s affairs.

Translations

capital of Sichuan province, China

• Arabic: شِينْغْدُو m (šinḡdū), تْشِينْغْدُو m (tšingdū)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 成都 (sing⁴ dou¹)

  Mandarin: 成都 (zh) (Chéngdū)

• French: Chengdu (fr) f
• Hungarian: Csengtu (hu)
• Japanese: 成都 (せいと, Seito)
• Khmer: ចេងទូ (cəŋtuu)
• Korean: 청두 (Cheongdu)
• Macedonian: Ченгду n (Čengdu)
• Manchu: ᠴᡝᠩ
  ᡩ᠋ᡠ᠋ (ceng du)
• Marathi: चेंग्डू n (ceṅgḍū)
• Nuosu: ꍯꄖ (Che du)
• Portuguese: Chengdu f
• Russian: Чэнду́ (ru) m (Čɛndú)
• Tibetan: ཁྲེན་ཏུ (khren tu)
• Uyghur: چېڭدۇ (chëngdu)
• Vietnamese: Thành Đô
• Zhuang: Cwngzduh

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (2008), “Chengdu”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[4], 2nd edition, volume 1, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 750, column 2

Anagrams

• gunched

Portuguese

Proper noun

Chengdu f

1. Chengdu (a subprovincial city, the provincial capital of Sichuan, in southwestern China)