Zhengzhou
English
Alternative forms
- (from Wade–Giles) Cheng-chou, Chêng-chou
- Chengchow
Etymology
Borrowed from the Hanyu Pinyin[1] romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 鄭州/郑州 (Zhèngzhōu).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /d͡ʒʌŋˈd͡ʒoʊ/
Proper noun
Zhengzhou
- A prefecture-level city, the provincial capital of Henan, in central China.
- July 21, 2021, Steven McDonald, Twelve die as rain floods train tunnel in China, BBC News, 3:13 from the start:
- Now outside in Zhengzhou, the city worst hit at the moment, which has had record rains hitting the highest level of rainfall since records were kept six decades ago, the streets have turned into brown rivers which have swallowed up traffic, and in an even more alarming development the military is saying that at a nearby city a major dam could actually burst and that soldiers have been mobilized there to blast around the dam in an attempt to divert flood waters, take the pressure off the dam, in the hope that, what they're talking about is already is a sort of twenty meter fissure in the dam, it can avoid having that dam being burst, which would obviously also be a really terrible development.
- 2022 May 23, “Chinese province of nearly 100 million to Covid test every two days”, in France 24, archived from the original on 23 May 2022:
- The testing will begin in Henan's provincial capital of Zhengzhou before the end of May, authorities said, according to the report, to help with "identifying potential risks" quickly.
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Translations
city in central China
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References
- “Selected Glossary”, in The Cambridge Encyclopedia of China, Cambridge University Press, 1982, →ISBN, LCCN 79-42627, OCLC 781411242, page 476: “The glossary includes a selection of names and terms from the text in the Wade-Giles transliteration, followed by Pinyin, […]
Cheng-chou (Zhengzhou) 鄭州”