Tzu-chung

English

Etymology

From Mandarin 資中／资中 (Zīzhōng) Wade–Giles romanization: Tzŭ¹-chung¹.

Proper noun

Tzu-chung

1. Alternative form of Zizhong
   • 1959, Ping-ti Ho, Studies on the Population of China, 1368-1953‎^[1], Harvard University Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 141:

     There are, of course, a number of counties where the descendants of pre-Ch'ing natives still constitute a significant portion of the local population. Tzu-chung county, midway between Ch'eng-tu and Chungking testifies:
     Tsu-chung does not have any native clans that can be traced back more than six hundred years. [Among the old clans] six- or seven- tenths came from Hupei during the early Ming period.