Songbu

English

Alternative forms

• Sung-pu (Wade–Giles)

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 宋埠 (Sòngbù).

Proper noun

Songbu

1. A town in Macheng, Huanggang, Hubei, China.
   • 1982, Dick Wilson, When Tigers Fight: the Story of the Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945‎^[1], New York: Viking Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 130‎^[2]:

     The commander-in-chief, General Li Zongren, had his HQ in a temple outside the market of the small town of Songbu.

   • 2023 March 5, “Four Hubei Residents Arrested for Raising Awareness about the Persecution of Falun Gong”, in Falun Dafa Information Center‎^[3], archived from the original on 14 March 2023, Persecution in China‎^[4]:

     On January 31, 2023, four Falun Gong practitioners in Songbu Town, Macheng City, Hubei Province were arrested. Two of the arrested are still detained as of February 25, 2023.

Synonyms

• Sungfow (Postal Romanization)
• Sung-fou (Wade-Giles)

Translations

town in central China

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 宋埠 (Sòngbù)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can

Anagrams

• bungos