Zhongwei

Zhongwei

See also: zhōngwèi

English

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin pronunciation for 中衛／中卫 (Zhōngwèi).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d͡ʒɔŋˈweɪ/

Proper noun

Zhongwei

1. A prefecture-level city in Ningxia, China.
   • [1976 August 22, “Second quake”, in Free China Weekly (自由中國週報)‎, volume XVII, number 33, Taipei, ISSN 0016-0318, OCLC 1786626, page 3, column 3:

     The Central Weather Bureau in Taipei pinpointed the epicenter of the August 16 earthquake on the Chinese mainland at a spot in the vicinity of Chungwei, Ninghsia province. […]
     Chungwei is located on a railway near the Great Wall. It is close to the boundary of Kansu. The earthquake was powerful enough to damage the ancient wall, according to seismologists.]

   • 1980 March, Gore, Rick, “Journey to China's Far West”, in National Geographic Magazine‎, ISSN 0027-9358, OCLC 643483454, page 310, column 1:

     WE GET OFF the train in the town of Zhongwei in the largely Muslim Ningxia autonomous region.

   • 1982, The Desert Realm‎, National Geographic Society, →ISBN, LCCN 80-7568, OCLC 8281437, OL 8343363M, page 223:

     At Zhongwei we disembarked to visit a place named Shapotou, which means "at the head of a sandy slope." The name describes the location, the edge of the Tengger, a shamo where dunes creep along the foothills of the Xiangshan, an east-west mountain range.

Translations

prefecture-level city

Chinese: Mandarin: 中衛 (zh), 中卫 (zh) (Zhōngwèi) Japanese: please add this translation if you can