Ürümqi

See also: Urumqi

English

Map including ÜRÜMQI (DMA, 1990)

Alternative forms

• Urumchi, Ürümchi, Urumqi
• Urumtsi (dated)
• Orumtsi

Etymology

Borrowed from Uyghur ئۈرۈمچى (ürümchi) via its official SASM/GNC/SRC romanization. See there for more.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʊˈrʊmt͡ʃi/, /uːˈɹuːmt͡ʃi/

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Proper noun

Ürümqi

1. A prefecture-level city, the capital of Xinjiang, China.
   • 1988, Manfred Domrös, Peng Gongbing, “Circulation”, in The Climate of China‎^[1], Springer-Verlag, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 36:

     As also proved from statistical figures, different wind conditions are established over some marginal parts of China. Harbin/15, which records 50% of all directions from SE, S and SW, underlines atypical wind conditions which exist over northeastern China. The same is true for Lhasa/239 which experiences 44% of all directions from NE, E and SE, and Ürümqi/269 which records 38% of all winds with a southern component. These three stations demonstrate rare wind conditions which do not coincide with the typical northern winds in winter.

   • 2010 March 4, Richard MacManus, “China's Twitter Clones”, in The New York Times‎^[2], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 04 April 2023, Technology:

     Fanfou, Jiwai and Digu were some of the first Twitter clones to become successful in China. However all three - plus Twitter itself - were blocked by the Chinese government in July 2009, due to their usage during the uprisings in Ürümqi.

   • 2020 January 29, Adam Schreck, Elaine Kurtenbach, David Koenig, “More airlines drop flights to China as virus spreads”, in AP News‎^[3], archived from the original on 15 April 2021‎^[4]:

     Before the Wednesday’s suspension, there were 24 flights a week from Kazakhstan to China, including a daily flight to Ürümqi, the capital of Xinjiang.

2. A county of Ürümqi city, Xinjiang, China.

Synonyms

• (from Mandarin Chinese) Wulumuqi, Wulumuchi, Wu-lu-mu-ch'i
• (historical) Dihua, Ti-hua, Tihua, Tihwa

Translations

Capital of Xinjiang

• Arabic: أُورُومْتْشِي m (ʔūrūmtšī)
• Armenian: Ուրումչի (Urumčʻi)
• Azerbaijani: Urumçi
• Belarusian: Урумчы́ m (Urumčý)
• Bengali: উরুমচী (urumci)
• Buryat: Үрэмшэ (Üremše)
• Chagatai: اُورُمْجِی (ūrumjī)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 烏魯木齊／乌鲁木齐 (wu¹ lou⁵ muk⁶ cai⁴)

  Mandarin: 烏魯木齊／乌鲁木齐 (zh) (Wūlǔmùqí)

• Czech: Urumči n, Úrůmdží n
• Finnish: Ürümqi (fi)
• Georgian: ურუმჩი (urumči)
• Greek: Ουρούμτσι (Ouroúmtsi)
• Hindi: उरुमची (urumcī), Urumchee m
• Hungarian: Ürümcsi (hu)
• Japanese: 烏魯木斉 (ウルムチ, Urumuchi)
• Kalmyk: Үрмч (Ürmç)
• Kazakh: Үрімжі (Ürımjı)
• Korean: 우루무치 (Urumuchi)
• Kyrgyz: Үрүмчү (Ürümcü)
• Macedonian: Урумчи n (Urumči)
• Manchu: ᡠᡵᡠᠮᠴᡳ (urumci)
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: Урумчи (Urumči), Өрөмч (Örömč), Үрэмч (Üremč), Үрүмчи (Ürümči)

  Mongolian: ᠦᠷᠦᠮᠴᠢ (ürümči)

• Polish: Urumczi (pl) n
• Portuguese: Urumqi f, Urumchi f
• Russian: Урумчи́ m (Urumčí), Улумуци́ m (Ulumucí)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Урумћи n

• Slovak: Urumči n
• Tibetan: ཨུ་རུམ་ཆི (u rum chi)
• Turkish: Urumçi
• Ukrainian: Урумчі́ m (Urumčí)
• Uyghur: ئۈرۈمچى (ug) (ürümchi)
• Uzbek: Urumchi
• Vietnamese: Ürümqi, Ô Lỗ Mộc Tề (烏魯木齊)
• Written Oirat: ᡇᠷᡇᡏᡔᡅ (urumci)
• Xibe: please add this translation if you can
• Zhuang: Vuhlujmuzciz

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Urumqi”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[5], volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 3290, column 1
• Ürümqi, Urumqi, Ürümchi, Urumchi, Urumtsi at Google Ngram Viewer
• “Ürümqi”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• Zhonghua Renmin Gongheguo fen sheng dituji (Hanyu Pinyin ban) (Atlas of the People's Republic of China (Hanyu Pinyin edition)

Uyghur

Proper noun

Ürümqi

1. Latin (UYY) transcription of ئۈرۈمچى (ürümchi)