Yuzhong

See also: yúzhōng, yúzhǒng, yúzhòng, yǔzhǒng, yùzhōng, yùzhǒng, and Yúzhōng

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌjuːˈd͡ʒɒŋ/, /ˌjuːˈd͡ʒʊŋ/, enPR: yüʹjo͝ongʹ

Etymology 1

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 渝中 (Yúzhōng, literally “central Chongqing”).

Proper noun

Yuzhong

1. A district of Chongqing, China.
   • 2004, Intercontinental's Best of China‎^[2], →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 401:

     Cruises to the Three Gorges are board at the Chaotianmen Dock in Yuzhong District (6310 0659), tickets require advanced booking.

   • 2008, Chen Xuejian, editor, Travel Around China‎^[3], HarperCollins, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 93:

     The shopping area of Jiefangbei (“Monument of Liberation") in the Yuzhong District includes a wide variety of stores, recreation centers, hotels, and other facilities.

   • 2012 December 24, Matt McCann, “In Western China, Steep Highs and Steep Lows”, in The New York Times‎^[4], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-04-15, Photography, Video and Visual Journalism‎^[5]:

     People young and old enjoy an afternoon on the banks of the Jialing River, facing the central Yuzhong district of Chongqing.

   • 2015, Fodor's China (Fodor's)‎^[6], 9th edition, →ISBN, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 567:

     The central peninsula area of Yuzhong District, between the Jialing River to the north and the Yangtze River to the south, is the most interesting and dynamic area of Chongqing.

   • 2015, Yang Jiang et al., “Making Streets Smile to Regenerate Cities: A Case of Chongqing, China”, in Reinventing Planning: Examples from the Profession‎^[7], →ISBN, →OCLC, page 182:

     Observing the results from the Route 3 implementation, one Yuzhong District senior government official believed that a similar project should be done to revitalize the heart of the central business district area, called Jiefangbei.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Yuzhong.
2. A peninsula in Yuzhong district, Chongqing, China.
   • 2008, Simon Foster, “The Three Gorges”, in Adventure Guide: China (Hunter Travel Guides)‎^[8], Hunter Publishing, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 263:

     The city’s meteoric growth has left it with several million residents in the Yuzhong peninsula alone, and over 30 million in the municipal area! This gargantuan population and the city’s strategic importance led to Chongqing’s separation from its parent province, Szechuan, in 1997, and it was designated as a “specially administered municipality,” controlled directly by the central government.

   • 2010, “Bigger Footprints”, in Asia Beyond Growth‎^[9], Thames & Hudson, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 76, column 1:

     Once you’ve been to Chongqing, it is hard to think of the city and not at the same time picture the beautiful mountains, and the majestic Yangtze River circumfloating the densely built Yuzhong Peninsula, only to absorb the waters of Jialing River just moments later.

   • 2015, Yang Jiang et al., “Making Streets Smile to Regenerate Cities: A Case of Chongqing, China”, in Reinventing Planning: Examples from the Profession‎^[10], →ISBN, →OCLC, page 176:

     The Yuzhong Peninsula, with a population of about 700,000 residents, has served as the business and historic center of the city (see Figure 1). Due to its mountainous landscape, walking has long been a necessary and popular mode of transportation within the center city.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Yuzhong.

Translations

district; peninsula

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 渝中 (zh) (Yúzhōng)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can

Further reading

• "渝中" [Yuzhong], in the Mandarin-English Dictionary & Thesaurus at YellowBridge.com, 2003–2023.

Etymology 2

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 榆中 (Yúzhōng).

Proper noun

Yuzhong

1. A county of Lanzhou, Gansu, China.
   • 1991, Bochuan He, “Questions of Pace and Regional Development”, in China on the Edge: The Crisis of Ecology and Development‎^[11], China Books and Periodicals, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 148:

     In the Shanzhuang district of Yuzhong County in Gansu, the annual average per capita grain intake was only 20-50 kilograms, and of the 49 production teams in the whole district, 48 had an average per capita income of less than 40 yuan.

   • 2004, Christopher P. Atwood, “Eight White Yurts”, in Encyclopedia of Mongolia and the Mongol Empire‎^[12], Facts on File, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 164, column 2:

     In May 1939 China’s Nationalist government, worried about the use Japan might make of the remains, ordered the most holy objects — the caskets of Chinggis, and Borte and of Qulan and the black four-footed standard — transported to a Taoist temple in Yuzhong county, Gansu.

   • 2011 April 8, Chris Buckley, Sui-Lee Wee, “Fear and swagger drive China's clampdown on dissent”, in John Chalmers, editor, Reuters‎^[13], archived from the original on 02 July 2022, World News:

     A directive from Yuzhong County in the northwestern province of Gansu declared, for example: “Since the abrupt changes in Tunisia and Egypt, Western forces hostile to China have been itching to do something and do their utmost to stir up a fuss.”

   • 2016 May 19, Didi Kirsten Tatlow, “Accusations of Brutality Cast Harsh Light on Chinese Police”, in The New York Times‎^[14], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2016-05-22, Asia Pacific:

     The official Weibo account of the Yuzhong Public Security Bureau in Lanzhou said that two police officers at the local Peace Police Station had “stopped working” and that the events were being investigated by the police and by other branches of government.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Yuzhong.

Translations

county

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 榆中 (zh) (Yúzhōng)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Yuzhong”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[15], volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 3543, column 2
• "榆中" [Yuzhong], in the Mandarin-English Dictionary & Thesaurus at YellowBridge.com, 2003–2023.