Chenggu

English

Alternative forms

• Ch'eng-ku (Wade–Giles)

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 城固.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t͡ʃɛŋ.ɡu/, /t͡ʃʌŋ-/, /t͡ʃɑŋ-/, /t͡ʃæŋ-/, enPR: chǔngʹko͞oʹ

Proper noun

Chenggu

1. A county of Hanzhong, Shaanxi, China.
   • 1991 [1987], Zongxu Zou, translated by Susan Whitfield, The Land Within the Passes: A History of Xian‎^[2], Viking, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 138:

     Zhang Qian, buried in his home town in Chenggu County, was the first envoy in Chinese history to visit the western regions and thus form the initial link between China and her western neighbours.

   • [2002, Chu Yin-tsung McIntyre, The Snow Storm Over Temple Ta-er‎^[3], Pittsburg, Penn.: Dorrance Publishing Co., →ISBN, →OCLC, page 1:

     The policy-making officials in the war capital of Chung-king had decided to relocate the Northwestern Teachers’ College from Ch’êng-ku county, southern Shênsi province, to Shih-li-tien, literally Ten-miles-distanced store, a suburb of the city of Lanchou, Kansu province.]

   • 2007 September 3, “Chinese primary school headmaster jailed for rape”, in Reuters‎^[4], archived from the original on 02 April 2023, World News‎^[5]:

     Li Jianguo, 49, headmaster of a rural primary school in Chenggu county in the northwester province of Shaanxi, was convicted of crimes committed from October of last year to May 2007.

Translations

county

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 城固 (zh)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (2008), “Chenggu”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[6], 2nd edition, volume 1, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 750, column 3

Anagrams

• Gucheng