Hanzhong

See also: Hànzhōng

English

Alternative forms

• Han-chung (Wade–Giles)
• Hanchung

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 漢中／汉中 (Hànzhōng).

Proper noun

Hanzhong

1. A prefecture-level city in Shaanxi, China.
   • 2010 May 12, “7 Children Killed in School in China”, in The New York Times‎^[1], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 16 May 2010‎^[2]:

     The Xinhua state news agency said the attack occurred at 8 a.m. at a kindergarten in Nanzheng County of Hanzhong City.
     Liu Xiaoming, deputy director of the propaganda department of Hanzhong City, confirmed the deaths and injuries.

Translations

prefecture-level city of Shaanxi, China

• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 漢中／汉中 (hon³ zung¹)

  Mandarin: 漢中／汉中 (zh) (Hànzhōng)

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Hanzhong”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[3], volume 2, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1232, column 1