Changchun

See also: Chángchūn, Ch'ang-ch'un, and chángchūn

English

Alternative forms

• Ch'ang-ch'un (Wade–Giles)

Etymology

From Mandarin 長春／长春 (Chángchūn).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t͡ʃæŋˈt͡ʃʊn/
• enPR: chängʹcho͞onʹ
• enPR: chängʹcho͝onʹ

Proper noun

Changchun

1. A prefecture-level city and subprovincial city, the provincial capital of Jilin, in northeastern China.
   • 1915 August 24, Charles K. Moser, “China-Manchuria”, in Supplement to Commerce Reports‎^[3], number 52h, Harbin, page 3:

     It costs but from $0.86 to $1.14 per ton to load Japanese coal into the cars at the mines, and as these are under the control of the South Manchuria Railway it is said that coal is freighted to Changchun free.

   • 1979 April 8, “Wallposter in Kirin”, in Free China Weekly‎^[4], volume XX, number 13, Taipei, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 3:

     A “big-character” wall appearing in Changchun, Kirin Province, on Feb. 2, denounced the Chinese Communist regime’s crackdown on dissidents clamoring for human rights, an intelligence report from the Chinese mainland said April 3.
     The wall poster accused the Peiping regime [of] "practicing Fascist totalitarianism," the report said, adding that some 40 people in Changchun had been arrested for putting up wall posters.

   • 2019 January 25, Austin Ramzy, “Explosions Shake Shopping District in Changchun, China”, in The New York Times‎^[5], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 26 January 2019, Asia Pacific‎^[6]:

     At least one person was killed and another was injured in a series of explosions Friday afternoon in the northeastern Chinese city of Changchun, the local authorities said.
     The police are tentatively treating the explosions as “a criminal case,” the propaganda office of the Changchun Municipal Communist Party Committee said in a statement posted online.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Changchun.

Synonyms

• (historical) Hsinking

Translations

a sub-provincial city in northeastern China

• Arabic: تْشَانْج شُون m (tšang šūn), تْشَانْجْشُون m (tšangšūn)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 長春／长春 (yue) (coeng⁴ ceon¹)

  Mandarin: 長春／长春 (zh) (Chángchūn)

• Finnish: Changchun
• Hungarian: Csangcsun (hu)
• Japanese: 長春 (ちょうしゅん, Chōshun)
• Korean: 창춘 (Changchun)
• Macedonian: Чангчун m (Čangčun)
• Manchu: ᠴᠠᠩᠴᡠᠨ (cangcun)
• Russian: Чанчу́нь m (Čančúnʹ)
• Spanish: Changchun (es)
• Vietnamese: Trường Xuân (vi)
• Zhuang: Cangzcunh

Further reading

• “Changchun”, in Collins English Dictionary.
• “Changchun, pn.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “Changchun”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• “Changchun”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• Saul B. Cohen, editor (2008), “Changchun”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[7], 2nd edition, volume 1, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 724, column 3

Spanish

Proper noun

Changchun ?

1. Changchun (a prefecture-level city and subprovincial city, the provincial capital of Jilin, in northeastern China)