Changzhou

See also: Chángzhōu

English

Alternative forms

• Ch'ang-chou (Wade–Giles)
• Changchow

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 常州 (Chángzhōu).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t͡ʃæŋ.d͡ʒoʊ/, /t͡ʃɒŋ-/, enPR: chängʹjōʹ

Proper noun

Changzhou

2. A prefecture-level city in southern Jiangsu, China.
   • [1970, Tsung-ying Lee, “EASTERN DIARY”, in Eastern Horizon‎^[1], volume IX, number 6, Hong Kong: Eastern Horizon Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 4, column 2:

     The Cultural Revolution paved the way for the full implementation of Chairman Mao’s whole set of principles of ‘walking on two legs’, and in the fair one saw many of the advanced industrial products on display which were actually manufactured by medium-sized and small enterprises. A precision self-balancing capacitor bridge was, for example, made by a small plant in Changchou, a small railway town in Kiangsu Province.]

   • [1981, Paul G. Pickowicz, “Youth in Changchow”, in Marxist Literary Thought in China: The Influence of Ch’ü Ch’iu-pai‎^[2], University of California Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1:

     Ch’ü was born on January 29, 1899, in a small room in the family residence in the southern portion of Changchow, a relatively small city in Kiangsu province.]

   • 2016 August 31, Kiki Zhao, “Chinese School With Mass Illness Is Deemed Safe, but Many Doubt Findings”, in The New York Times‎^[3], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 31 August 2016, Asia Pacific‎^[4]:

     In a brief announcement late last week, the Changzhou city government said that investigators had concluded that the air, soil and water at the school were safe after conducting tests from April 19 to May 20.

4. A district of Wuzhou, Guangxi, China.
6. An island in Huangpu district, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China.

Synonyms

• Wutsin

Translations

a city of China

• Arabic: تْشَانْغْجُو m (tšanḡjū)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 常州 (zh) (Chángzhōu)

• Hungarian: Csangcsou (hu)
• Japanese: 常州 (ja) (じょうしゅう, Jōshū)
• Korean: 창저우 (Changjeou)
• Russian: Чанчжо́у m (Čančžóu)
• Vietnamese: Thường Châu (vi)

Further reading

• “Changzhou”, in Collins English Dictionary.
• Changzhou, Changchow, Ch'ang-chou, Changchou, Wutsin at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.
• “Changzhou”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• “Changzhou”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• “Changzhou” in TheFreeDictionary.com, Huntingdon Valley, Pa.: Farlex, Inc., 2003–2024.
• Saul B. Cohen, editor (2008), “Changzhou”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[5], 2nd edition, volume 1, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 726, column 3