Wugong
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English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 武功 (Wǔgōng).
Proper noun
[edit]Wugong
- A county of Xianyang, Shaanxi, China.
- 2017 December 4, “Natural gas crunch in northern China leaves hospitals, schools out in the cold”, in South China Morning Post[1], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2017-12-04, Policies & Politics[2]:
- According to a report last week by Huashang Daily, several schools in rural Shaanxi province are struggling to keep their pupils warm after their coal-fired heaters were dismantled during the anti-smog campaign.
A primary school in Wugong county had neither a gas supply nor an electricity connection powerful enough to run the heaters on its air conditioning units, it said.
Translations
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Wugong”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World[3], volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 3494, column 2
- Wugong, Wu-kung, Wukung at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.