Chengzhong

See also: chéngzhōng

English

Alternative forms

• Ch'eng-chung (Wade–Giles)

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 城中 (Chéngzhōng).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌt͡ʃʌŋˈd͡ʒɒŋ/, /ˌt͡ʃʌŋˈd͡ʒʊŋ/

Proper noun

Chengzhong

1. A district of Liuzhou, Guangxi, China
2. A district of Xining, Qinghai, China
   • 1982 October 15 [1982 July 21], Weihai Yu, “PARTY EDUCATION EMPHASIZED IN QINGHAI PROVINCE”, in CHINA REPORT POLITICAL, SOCIOLOGICAL AND MILITARY AFFAIRS‎^[1], number 350, United States Joint Publications Research Service, page 54:

     The party members of the Nantan office in Chengzhong District of the city of Xining, in their educational activities, carried out criticism and self-criticism in a side-by-side comparison with the standards for party members.

   • 2020 January 14, Kim Bellware, “Huge sinkhole swallows bus in China and explodes, killing at least six”, in Washington Post‎^[2], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 14 January 2020; republished as Bus falls into China sinkhole (Stars and Stripes)‎^[3], volume 78, number 193, 2020 January 15, →OCLC, page 12:

     The incident happened around 5:30 p.m. local time on a heavily trafficked street in Xining, the capital of Qinghai province, state media reports. It marks the latest instance of a sinkhole opening around busy or rapidly developing parts of China.
     Video from the scene captured by CCTV and circulating on Chinese social media showed people gathered at a bus stop outside the Great Wall Hospital in the city’s Chengzhong District when the road suddenly buckles, sending people on the street running.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Chengzhong.
3. A subdistrict of Yingcheng, Xiaogan, Hubei, China.

Translations

a subdistrict in central China

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 城中 (Chéngzhōng)

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