Changning

Changning

English

Changning District in Shanghai

Alternative forms

• (obsolete) Ch'ang-ning

Etymology

The atonal pinyin romanization of the Mandarin pronunciation of Chinese 長寧 (Chángníng, literally “Long Pacified”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t͡ʃɑŋnɪŋ/, /t͡ʃæŋnɪŋ/

Proper noun

Changning

1. A district of Shanghai, China.
   • 2005, Shanghai (Insight Guides)‎, Apa Publishers, →ISBN, OCLC 60534081, page 189:

     In an early 20th-century shikumen (stone gate) house on Lane 1376 Yuyuan Road is the Changning District Revolutionary Historical Relic Exhibition Hall and Editorial Offices of the Bolshevik ③ (Changning Qu Geming Wen Wu Chen Lie Guan: Mon-Fri, 9am-5pm; free).

   • 2019 May 16, “At least 9 trapped in Shanghai building collapse”, in AP News‎, archived from the original on 13 June 2022:

     By early afternoon, 11 out of the approximately 20 people buried in the collapse had been pulled from the rubble. Their conditions were not immediately known.
     The building is in the Changning district of China’s financial hub.

Translations

District of Shanghai, China

Chinese: Mandarin: 長寧 (zh), 长宁 (zh) (Chángníng)