Shuangqiao

English

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 雙橋／双桥 (Shuāngqiáo).

Proper noun

Shuangqiao

1. (historical) A former district of Chongqing, China.
   • 2007 April 26, “"Women's town" to put men in their place”, in Reuters‎^[1], archived from the original on 06 August 2016, Life‎^[2]:

     The 2.3-square-km Longshuihu village in the Shuangqiao district of Chongqing municipality, also known as "women's town," was based on the local traditional concept of "women rule and men obey," a tourism official told Reuters.

   • 2019, Zhijie Wang, “The Practices of Over-Leaping the Middle Income Trap via New Industrialization–A Case Study of Dazu District in Chongqing”, in Yining Li, Zhiqiang Cheng, editors, China's Reform to Overleap the Middle-Income Trap‎^[3], →DOI, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 211:

     In 2011, former Shuangqiao District and Dazu County were merged as Dazu District with an area of 1436 km² and a population 1.03 million.

Translations

former district

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 雙橋／双桥 (zh) (Shuāngqiáo)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can