Changji

Changji

See also: chàngjī and Chāngjí

English

Alternative forms

• (from Wade–Giles) Ch'ang-chi

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 昌吉 (Chāngjí).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t͡ʃæŋˈd͡ʒiː/, /t͡ʃɑːŋˈd͡ʒiː/

Proper noun

Changji

1. A Hui autonomous prefecture in northern Xinjiang, China.
   • [1978, Daily Report: People's Republic of China‎, number 128-140, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, ISSN 0892-0141, OCLC 1113433, page 15:

     During my inspection of counties in Changchi Prefecture last September, I came to realize that the irrigation of the Sinkiang farmland depended mainly on the melted snow of the Tienshan Mountains.]

   • 1998, Linda Benson; Ingvar Svanberg, China's Last Nomads‎, M. E. Sharpe, →ISBN, LCCN 97-45582, OCLC 984366426, page 165:

     As elsewhere in Xinjiang, the number of Han Chinese throughout the Changji prefecture increased in the late 1950s. Towns and villages all along the main east-west road experienced considerable growth.

2. A county-level city in Changji, in northern Xinjiang, China.

Translations

autonomous prefecture and county-level city in Xinjiang, China

Chinese: Mandarin: 昌吉 (zh) (Chāngjí) Japanese: please add this translation if you can Korean: please add this translation if you can Uyghur: سانجى‎ (sanji)