Chongqing
English
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Alternative forms
edit- Chong-qing,Chong Qing(also fromHanyu Pinyin)
- Chungking(Postal Romanization)
- Chungching,Ch'ung-ch'ing(Wade–Giles)
- Tchang-king(19th century romanization)
Etymology
editFrom theHanyu Pinyin romanization ofMandarin重慶 /重庆(chóngqìng).
Pronunciation
editProper noun
editChongqing
- Adirect-administered municipality andcity in westernChina.
- 2012 April 18,Michael Wines, “Landslide Risk At Reservoir Cited in China”, inThe New York Times[1],→ISSN,→OCLC, archived fromthe original on19 April 2012, Asia Pacific[2]:
- The latest proposed relocation would affect residents along hundreds of miles of twisting lakeshore from Jiangjin, in theChongqing municipality, to the dam’s location at Yichang, in Hubei Province.
- 2014 January 20, Didi Kirsten Tatlow, “‘She. Herself. Naked.': The Art ofHe Chengyao”, inThe New York Times[3],→ISSN,→OCLC, archived fromthe original on16 August 2023, Sinosphere[4]:
- Her young parents, who worked in a pottery factory in Rongchang in present-dayChongqing municipality, conceived her while unmarried.
- 2019 April 11,Keith Bradsher, “For Chinese Raised in Prosperity, Shrugs in the Face of Layoffs”, inThe New York Times[5],→ISSN,→OCLC, archived fromthe original on12 April 2019, China Dispatch[6]:
- For nearly four years, he worked in one of the three cavernous Ford Motor assembly plants inChongqing, a sprawling metropolis in southwestern China with almost 20 million people. Every day, he spent long hours putting brake fluid into the Ford Focus compact cars that glided past on the assembly line.
- 2022 January 7, Gabriel Crossley, “Multiple people trapped after explosion in China's Chongqing - state media”, in Michael Perry, editor,Reuters[7], archived fromthe original on07 January 2022,China:
- A canteen in China's southwest municipality ofChongqing collapsed on Friday following an explosion suspected to be caused by a gas leak, leaving many trapped, according to reports from state media.
- For more quotations using this term, seeCitations:Chongqing.
Derived terms
editTranslations
edita municipality in western China
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See also
editProvinces:Anhui ·Fujian ·Guangdong ·Gansu ·Guizhou ·Henan ·Hubei ·Hebei ·Hainan ·Heilongjiang ·Hunan ·Jilin ·Jiangsu ·Jiangxi ·Liaoning ·Qinghai ·Sichuan ·Shandong ·Shaanxi ·Shanxi ·Taiwan (claimed) ·Yunnan ·Zhejiang |
Autonomous regions:Guangxi ·Inner Mongolia ·Ningxia ·Tibet Autonomous Region ·Xinjiang |
Municipalities:Beijing ·Tianjin ·Shanghai ·Chongqing |
Special administrative regions:Hong Kong ·Macau |
Further reading
edit- “Chongqing”, inCollins English Dictionary.
- “Chongqing,pn.”, inLexico,Dictionary.com;Oxford University Press,2019–2022.
- “Chongqing”, inOneLook Dictionary Search.
- “Chongqing”, inMerriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.:Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
- “Chongqing” inTheFreeDictionary.com, Huntingdon Valley, Pa.: Farlex, Inc., 2003–2025.
- Saul B. Cohen, editor (2008), “Chongqing”, inThe Columbia Gazetteer of the World[8], 2nd edition, volume 1,New York:Columbia University Press,→ISBN,→LCCN,→OCLC,page792, column 1
French
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editBorrowed fromMandarin重慶 /重庆(Chóngqìng).
Pronunciation
editProper noun
editChongqing f
- Chongqing (adirect-administered municipality andcity in westernChina)
Portuguese
editEtymology
editFromMandarin重慶 /重庆(Chóngqìng).
Proper noun
editChongqing f
- Chongqing (adirect-administered municipality andcity in westernChina)
Spanish
editEtymology
editBorrowed fromMandarin重慶 /重庆(Chóngqìng).
Proper noun
editChongqing f
- Chongqing (adirect-administered municipality andcity in westernChina)
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