Zhengzhou

English

Alternative forms

• Cheng-chou, Chêng-chou (Wade–Giles)
• Chengchow

Etymology

Borrowed from the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 鄭州／郑州 (Zhèngzhōu).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d͡ʒʌŋˈd͡ʒoʊ/, enPR: jǔngʹjōʹ

Proper noun

Zhengzhou

1. A prefecture-level city, the provincial capital of Henan, in central China.
   • July 21, 2021, Steven McDonald, 3:13 from the start, in Twelve die as rain floods train tunnel in China‎^[3], BBC News:

     Now outside in Zhengzhou, the city worst hit at the moment, which has had record rains hitting the highest level of rainfall since records were kept six decades ago, the streets have turned into brown rivers which have swallowed up traffic, and in an even more alarming development the military is saying that at a nearby city a major dam could actually burst and that soldiers have been mobilized there to blast around the dam in an attempt to divert flood waters, take the pressure off the dam, in the hope that, what they're talking about is already is a sort of twenty meter fissure in the dam, it can avoid having that dam being burst, which would obviously also be a really terrible development.

   • 2022 May 23, “Chinese province of nearly 100 million to Covid test every two days”, in France 24‎^[4], archived from the original on 23 May 2022:

     The testing will begin in Henan's provincial capital of Zhengzhou before the end of May, authorities said, according to the report, to help with "identifying potential risks" quickly.

Translations

city in central China

• Arabic: جِينْغْجُو m (jinḡjū)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 鄭州／郑州 (zeng⁶ zau¹)

  Mandarin: 鄭州／郑州 (zh) (Zhèngzhōu)

• Finnish: Zhengzhou
• Hungarian: Csengcsou (hu)
• Japanese: 鄭州 (ていしゅう, Teishū)
• Korean: 정저우 (Jeongjeou)
• Macedonian: Џе́нгџоу n (Džéngdžou)
• Russian: Чжэнчжо́у m (Čžɛnčžóu)
• Vietnamese: Trịnh Châu (vi)
• Zhuang: Cwngcouh

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Zhengzhou”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[5], volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 3563, column 3