Ch'eng-tu

See also: Chengtu

English

Map including 成都 CH'ENG-TU (AMS, 1958)

Etymology

From Mandarin 成都 (Chéngdū) Wade–Giles romanization: Chʻêng²-tu¹.

Proper noun

Ch'eng-tu

1. Alternative form of Chengdu
   • 1919, John C. Ferguson, Outlines of Chinese Art‎^[1], Chicago: University of Chicago Press, →OCLC, page 116:

     There is a portrait of Confucius at Ch’ü-fu attributed to Wu and another striking picture representing the struggle of a tortoise with a serpent, kuei she t’u, which is in the Prefect's official residence at Ch’êng-tu, Sze-ch’uan.

   • 1971, Albert Richard Davis, Tu Fu‎^[2], Twayne Publishers, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 131:

     In many poems whose titles suggest that travel is their subject, it proves to be only a minor theme. An exception, however, is the series of poems which Tu Fu wrote during the journey in 759 from Chʻin-chou to Tʻung-ku and on to Chʻeng-tu. This long journey carried out in a short period over strange and extremely difficult terrain powerfully engaged the poet's mind and moved him to commemorate it in a continuing series of immediate impressions. Read together, these poems may be seen as a poetical yu-chi. There are more than twenty poems in all. With the exception of the first, the following come from the second stage from Tʻung-ku to Chʻeng-tu.

   • 2012, Michael Kenyon, A Year at River Mountain‎^[3], Thistledown Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 124:

     Tu Fu's translated poems on the floor. Meanwhile, in Ch'eng-tu, beyond the Ch'in Ling Mountains, Tu Fu found his thatch hut. The year 766 - Western count - Tibet about to invade again.

Translations

Chengdu — see Chengdu

Further reading

• “Ch'eng-tu”, in Collins English Dictionary.
• “Ch’eng-tu”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• “Ch'eng-tu” in TheFreeDictionary.com, Huntingdon Valley, Pa.: Farlex, Inc., 2003–2024.