Ch'ang-te

English

Etymology

From Mandarin 常德 (Chángdé), Wade–Giles romanization: Chʻang²-tê².

Pronunciation

• enPR: chängʹdǔʹ

Proper noun

Ch'ang-te

1. Alternative form of Changde
   • 1971, Liew Kit Siong, Struggle for Democracy: Sung Chiao-jen and the 1911 Chinese Revolution‎^[1], University of California Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 109:

     At the time of the China Resurgence Society, when Sung was preparing a revolt in the prefecture of Ch’ang-te, Chiang I-wu was a student in a teachers’ training school in Ch’ang-te, and he apparently shared Sung’s activities.

   • 1976, Charlton M. Lewis, Prologue to the Chinese Revolution: The Transformation of Ideas and Institutions in Hunan Province, 1891-1907‎^[2], Harvard University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 99:

     In Hunan the Left Army was located at Ch’ang-te under a Ch’ang-te merchant named Ch’en Yu-lung.

   • 1988, Lyman P. Van Slyke, Yangtze: Nature History and the River‎^[3], Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 110:

     In West Hunan (1943), a collection of essays about the places he knew so well, Shen describes the waterfront scene in Ch'ang-te, on the Yuan River.

Translations

Changde — see Changde

Further reading

• “Ch'ang-te”, in Collins English Dictionary.
• “Ch’ang-te”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• “Ch'ang-te” in TheFreeDictionary.com, Huntingdon Valley, Pa.: Farlex, Inc., 2003–2024.
• “Ch’ang-te or Chang·teh”, in The International Geographic Encyclopedia and Atlas‎^[4], Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1979, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 146, column 1

Anagrams

• T'a-ch'eng, Tacheng