Zhongxiang
See also: zhōngxiàng and Zhōngxiáng
English
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editEtymology
editFrom the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 鍾祥/钟祥 (Zhōngxiáng).
Pronunciation
editProper noun
editZhongxiang
- A county-level city in Jingmen, Hubei, China.
- [1738, “PROVINCE VI. HU-QUANG.”, in A Description of the Empire of China and Chinese-Tartary, Together with the Kingdoms of Korea, and Tibet[2], volume I, London, translation of original by J. B. Du Halde, →OCLC, page 99:
- The Third City, Ngan-lo-fu.
THIS City is built on the River Han in a vaſt Plain equally agreeable and fertile.]
- 2017 August 21 [2017 August 18], Kiki Zhao, “A Chinese Poet’s Unusual Path From Isolated Farm Life to Celebrity”, in The New York Times[3], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2017-09-07, Asia Pacific[4]:
- In the shade near the house she wrote at a low table, struggling to control her shaking body — a symptom of the cerebral palsy that she has lived with since she was born in this village in the central province of Hubei. […]
She was appointed deputy chairwoman of the Federation of Literary and Art Circles in the nearby city of Zhongxiang.
Translations
editcounty-level city in central China
References
edit- ^ Leon E. Seltzer, editor (1952), “Chungsiang or Chung-hsiang”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World[1], Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 408, column 2
Further reading
edit- Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Zhongxiang”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World[5], volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 3565, column 2
- Zhongxiang, Chungsiang, Chunghsiang, Chung-hsiang at Google Ngram Viewer