Songzi

English

Alternative forms

• Sungtze (Postal Romanization)
• Sung-tzu (Wade–Giles)

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 松滋 (Sōngzī).

Proper noun

Songzi

1. A county-level city in Jingzhou, Hubei, China.
   • 2005, Unequal Chances: Family Background and Economic Success‎^[1], →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 238:

     Songzi, located on Jianghan Plain in southwest Hubei province on the southern side of the Yangtze River, had a population of 896,800 at the end of 1999. Songzi is a relatively well-developed agricultural county with fertile land that has produced the famous “Babao Cotton” for hundreds of years.

   • 2020 February 6, Siobhán O'Grady, Lenny Bernstein, Anna Fifield, William Wan, “For Americans, a nightmare escaping Wuhan, then 14 days of quarantine”, in The Washington Post‎^[2], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2020-02-06, Health‎^[3]:

     Leonhard and another American took an eerie four-hour drive from Songzi City to Wuhan airport to get out. For hours they were the only car on the freeway, she said, with trucks taking supplies to the idled city.

Translations

county-level city in central China

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 松滋 (zh) (Sōngzī)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can

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