Zhangqiao

English

Alternative forms

• Chang-ch'iao (Wade–Giles)

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 張橋／张桥 (Zhāngqiáo).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈd͡ʒɑŋ.t͡ʃɑʊ/, /ˈd͡ʒæŋ-/, /-t͡ʃi.ɑʊ/

Proper noun

Zhangqiao

1. A town in Yanling, Xuchang, Henan, China, formerly a township.
   • 2014 December 22, Zhuang Pinghui, “Chinese men fined for catching almost 1,700 protected wild geckos in one night”, in South China Morning Post‎^[1], archived from the original on 23 December 2014:

     The group of seven had driven up to a village in Zhangqiao town in a minivan late one September night. There, they used home-made traps to catch the geckos, which they planned to sell. But they were caught and the 1,689 geckos that they caught were released back into the wild.

Translations

town in Yanling, Xuchang, Henan, China

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 張橋／张桥 (Zhāngqiáo)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can