Shuangchengzi

English

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 雙城子 / 双城子 (Shuāngchéngzi).

Proper noun

Shuangchengzi

1. Synonym of Ussuriysk: the Mandarin Chinese-derived name.
   • 1979, “Chinese report of typhoon in USSR”, in Summary of World Broadcasts: Far East‎^[1], British Broadcasting Corporation Monitoring Service, →ISSN, →OCLC, page A-30:

     Reporting a typhoon in the Soviet Far East on 18th August the NCNA said (in English 0825 gmt 21 Aug 79) that “the stricken areas included Spassk, Ussuriysk (Shuangchengzi) and Vladivostok […]

   • 1986, Roy E. H. Mellor, Essays for Professor R.E.H. Mellor‎^[2], →ISBN, →OCLC, page 137:

     To the east of the Lefu the important town of Ussuriysk (originally Nikolsk, then in 1935-1957 Voroshilov, but known to the Chinese as Shuangchengzi 'double wall town') stands on a tributary of the largest river flowing into the sea near Vladivostok, the Suifun.

   • 2023, Qi Li, Daping Liu, Jusheng Song, “The Chinese Eastern Railway: Geostrategic Heritage from the Turn of the Twentieth Century in Northeast China”, in Journal of Asian Architecture and Building Engineering‎^[3], →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-01-19‎^[4]:

     The main line begins at Manzhouli (exits China and connects with Aotepuer奥特普耳 station in the Baikal section of the TSR), then passes through Harbin to Suifenhe from west to east (exits China and connects with Shuangchengzi双城子 station in the Ussuri section of the TSR) [38], the length of which is 1514.3 kilometers.

Translations

city

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 雙城子 / 双城子 (zh) (Shuāngchéngzi)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can

Further reading

• Shuangchengzi at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.