Sangzhi

See also: sàngzhì

English

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 桑植 (Sāngzhí).

Proper noun

Sangzhi

1. A county of Zhangjiajie, Hunan, China.
   • 2019 December 15, Gerry Shih, “They built a Chinese boomtown. It left them dying of lung disease with nowhere to turn.”, in The New York Times‎^[1], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on December 16, 2019, Asia & Pacific‎^[2]:

     Steep sandstone ravines carve across Sangzhi county, a part of Hunan province with little industry or even agriculture. But multistory homes with faux-European balustrades line county road 420. They are the rewards of laboring in cities like Shenzhen — and monuments to the human cost.

Translations

county

• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 桑植 (song¹ zik⁶)

  Mandarin: 桑植 (zh) (Sāngzhí)