Zhong

See also: zhong

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d͡ʒɔŋ/, /ʒɔŋ/, /zɔŋ/, enPR: jo͝ong

Etymology 1

Proper noun

Zhong (plural Zhongs)

1. A surname.

Statistics

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Zhong is the 6754^th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 4991 individuals. Zhong is most common among Asian/Pacific Islander (97.98%) individuals.

Etymology 2

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 忠 (Zhōng).

Proper noun

Zhong

1. A county of Chongqing, China.
   • 1986 March 13 [1985 October 15], China Report Economic Affairs Energy: Status and Development 47‎^[1], Foreign Broadcast Information Service, →OCLC, page 45:

     Under special conditions (when the previous year is one of abundant sand and the following year is a dry one), there are four locations in the river section that has many sandbar accumulations between Changshou and Zhong County where temporary silt accumulation may occur, making it possible to maintain a water depth of only 3 meters or less (river ship channel departments now are striving to maintain it above 2.9 meters) and resulting in problems in the passage of large barge trains.

   • 1998 [1997], Hong Ying, translated by Howard Goldblatt, Daughter of the River‎^[2], New York: Grove Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 92:

     In the spring of 1943, not long before Mother fled her home in Zhong County and came to Chongqing, Father's unit was transferred to another city.

   • 2002, Deirdre Chetham, Before the Deluge: The Vanishing World of the Yangtze's Three Gorges‎^[3], Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 196:

     There is no lack of precedent for such disturbances. For example, problems left over from the relocation of inhabitants in projects such as the Xinhua Reservoir in Wushan county, the Xiaojiang hydropower station in Yunyang county, and the Baishi Reservoir in Zhong county have constantly been the cause of frequent mass disturbances of no small scale; these problems have not been overcome even at this time.

   • 2020 December 12, Sam McNeil, “Flamethrower drone incinerates wasp nests in China”, in AP News‎^[4], archived from the original on 12 December 2020:

     Blue Sky Rescue, a volunteer group that conducts search and rescue and other emergency work, have teamed up with villagers in Zhong county near the city of Chongqing.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Zhong.

Translations

county

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 忠 (zh) (Zhōng)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Zhong Xian”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[5], volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 3565, column 1