Nanchong
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English
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Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From the Hanyu Pinyin[1] romanization of the Mandarin 南充 (Nánchōng).
Pronunciation
[edit]- enPR: nänʹcho͝ongʹ
Proper noun
[edit]Nanchong
- A prefecture-level city in Sichuan, China.
- 2017 October 17, John Ruwitch, Anita Li, “Cash and coffee: a young woman's path in a changing China”, in Reuters[2], archived from the original on 07 May 2022, Regulatory News[3]:
- Her mother had recently had minor surgery, so Qin decided it was a good time to leave the golf company and move back to her hometown of Nanchong, a city in Sichuan province some 200 km (125 miles) east of Chengdu.
Translations
[edit]a prefecture-level city in Sichuan, China
References
[edit]- ^ Shabad, Theodore (1972) “Index”, in China's Changing Map[1], New York: Frederick A. Praeger, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 345, 358:
- Chinese place names are listed in three common spelling styles: […] (1) the Post Office system, […] (2) the Wade-Giles system, […] shown after the main entry […] (3) the Chinese Communists' own Pinyin romanization system, which also appears in parentheses […] Nanchung (Nan-ch'ung, Nanchong)