Zaozhuang
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Etymology edit
From the Hanyu Pinyin[1] romanization of the Mandarin 棗莊／枣庄 (Zǎozhuāng).
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Zaozhuang
- A prefecture-level city in Shandong, China.
- 2013 December 5, Austin Ramzy, “Air Pollution Shrouds Eastern China”, in The New York Times[3], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-07-17, Sinosphere[4]:
- By early evening Thursday, the pollution level in Shanghai was hovering at 340. At least 16 other cities in four provinces in eastern China were also reporting pollution levels over 300. In Zaozhuang, a city of nearly four million in Shandong Province, the pollution index hit 500, the maximum reading on the Chinese scale.
Translations edit
prefecture-level city
References edit
- ^ Shabad, Theodore (1972) “Index”, in China's Changing Map[1], New York: Frederick A. Praeger, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 345, 366:
- Chinese place names are listed in three common spelling styles: […] (1) the Post Office system, […] (2) the Wade-Giles system, […] shown after the main entry […] (3) the Chinese Communists' own Pinyin romanization system, which also appears in parentheses […] Tsaochwang (Tsao-chuang, Zaozhuang)
- ^ Leon E. Seltzer, editor (1952), “Tsaochwang or Tsao-chuang”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World[2], Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 1951, column 3
Further reading edit
- Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Zaozhuang”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World[5], volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 3552, column 1
- “Zaozhuang, pn.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
- “Zaozhuang”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.