Zhangwan
See also: Zhāngwān
English
Etymology
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 張灣／张湾 (Zhāngwān).
Proper noun
Zhangwan
- A district of Shiyan, Hubei, China.
- 1994, Chung-Yuk Mok, China's Motor Cities: Industrialization and Urban Development under State Socialism, 1948-90, volume 2, OCLC 974946622, page 317:
- Much of the land that belonged to the Maojian, Shiyan, Tumen, and Huaguo people communes were turned into urban land. Figure 7.2 shows that the former urban area was divided into Zhangwan and Maojian districts.
- 2020 February 14, Yanan Wang, “Spike in China cases with new way of counting”, in Stars and Stripes, volume 78, number 215, OCLC 1035076549, page 16:
- Xu Min, a resident of Shiyan's Zhangwan district, said her neighborhood entrance was being guarded by community workers and security staff.
- 2020, Wann-Ming Wey, editor, Sustainable Built Environment and Urban Growth Management, MDPI, →ISBN, ISSN 2071-1050, OCLC 1152016578, page 171:
- Urban residents were surveyed in two central districts including the Hongshan District and Hangjiang[sic – meaning Jianghan] District in Wuhan City as well as the Zhangwan District in Shiyan City.
- 2021 June 13, Lee, Lily, “At least 12 killed in huge gas explosion in central Chinese city”, in CNN, archived from the original on 13 June 2021:
- At about 6:30 a.m. local time Sunday a gas pipe exploded in the Zhangwan district of Shiyan city, in Hubei province, according to official news agency Xinhua.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Zhangwan.
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- A subdistrict of Caidian district, Wuhan, Hubei, China.
- A subdistrict of Xiangzhou district, Xiangyang, Hubei, China.
- A village subdistrict Mawan, Tianmen, Hubei, China.
Translations
district in central China; subdistricts in central China; village in central China
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