Chongqing
English
Alternative forms
- (also from Hanyu Pinyin) Chong-qing, Chong Qing
- (postal romanization) Chungking
- (from Wade–Giles) Chungching, Ch'ung-ch'ing
- (19th century romanization) Tchang-king
Etymology
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 重慶／重庆 (Chóngqìng).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˌt͡ʃɔŋˈt͡ʃɪŋ/
Audio (Southern England) (file)
Proper noun
Chongqing
- A direct-administered municipality and city in western China.
- 2019 April 11, Bradsher, Keith, “For Chinese Raised in Prosperity, Shrugs in the Face of Layoffs”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 12 April 2019, China Dispatch:
- For nearly four years, he worked in one of the three cavernous Ford Motor assembly plants in Chongqing, 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, Crossley, Gabriel, “Multiple people trapped after explosion in China's Chongqing - state media”, in Michael Perry, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 07 January 2022, China:
- A canteen in China's southwest municipality of Chongqing collapsed on Friday following an explosion suspected to be caused by a gas leak, leaving many trapped, according to reports from state media.
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Derived terms
Translations
a municipality in western China
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Further reading
- “Chongqing”, in Collins English Dictionary.
- “Chongqing, pn.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
- Chongqing at OneLook Dictionary Search
- “Chongqing”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
- “Chongqing” in TheFreeDictionary.com, Huntingdon Valley, Pa.: Farlex, Inc., 2003–2023.
- Saul B. Cohen, editor (2008), “Chongqing”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World, volume 1, 2nd edition, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 792, column 1
French
Alternative forms
- Tchoung King (dated)
Portuguese
Spanish
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