Chengguan

See also: chengguan, chéngguān, chéngguǎn, and Chéngguān

English

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 城關／城关 (Chéngguān).

Proper noun

Chengguan

1. A district of Lhasa, Tibet, China.
   • 2024 May 21, “Report says China is accelerating the forced urbanization of rural Tibetans”, in AP News‎^[1], sourced from TAIPEI, Taiwan, archived from the original on May 23, 2024, World News‎^[2]:

     People rest in the shade beneath a government propaganda banner in Chinese and Tibetan near a neighborhood Tibetan Buddhist shrine in the Chengguan district of Lhasa in western China's Tibet Autonomous Region, as seen during a rare government-led tour of the region for foreign journalists, Thursday June 3, 2021.

Translations

district

• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 城關／城关 (Sing⁴ gwaan¹)

  Mandarin: 城關／城关 (Chéngguān)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can