Zhangwan

See also: Zhāngwān

English

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 張灣 / 张湾 (Zhāngwān).

Pronunciation

• enPR: jängʹwänʹ

Proper noun

Zhangwan

1. A district of Shiyan, Hubei, China.
   • 1994, Chung-Yuk Mok, China's Motor Cities: Industrialization and Urban Development under State Socialism, 1948-90‎^[1], volume 2, →OCLC, page 317:

     Much of the land that belonged to the Maojian, Shiyan, Tumen, and Huaguo people communes were turned into urban land. Figure 7.2 shows that the former urban area was divided into Zhangwan and Maojian districts.

   • 2020 February 14, Yanan Wang, “Spike in China cases with new way of counting”, in Stars and Stripes‎^[2], volume 78, number 215, →OCLC, page 16:

     Xu Min, a resident of Shiyan's Zhangwan district, said her neighborhood entrance was being guarded by community workers and security staff.

   • 2020, Wann-Ming Wey, editor, Sustainable Built Environment and Urban Growth Management‎^[3], MDPI, →ISBN, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 171:

     Urban residents were surveyed in two central districts including the Hongshan District and Hangjiang^{[sic – meaning Jianghan]} District in Wuhan City as well as the Zhangwan District in Shiyan City.

   • 2021 June 13, Raymond Zhong, “Explosion at Produce Market Kills at Least 12 in China”, in The New York Times‎^[4], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2021-06-14, Asia Pacific‎^[5]:

     Local news reports said that when the explosion took place, people had been buying and selling produce and eating breakfast at the market, which is in a residential area in the city’s Zhangwan District. City officials said 913 households and merchants had been evacuated from the scene.
     The governor of Hubei, Wang Zhonglin, rushed to Shiyan to direct rescue efforts, the authorities said.

   • 2021 June 13, Lily Lee, “At least 12 killed in huge gas explosion in central Chinese city”, in CNN‎^[6], archived from the original on April 19, 2023‎^[7]:

     The blast took place at about 6:30 a.m. local time in the Zhangwan district of Shiyan city, in Hubei province, according to local authorities.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Zhangwan.
2. A subdistrict of Caidian district, Wuhan, Hubei, China.
3. A subdistrict of Xiangzhou district, Xiangyang, Hubei, China.
4. A village subdistrict Mawan, Tianmen, Hubei, China.

Translations

district in central China; subdistricts in central China; village in central China

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 張灣 / 张湾 (zh) (Zhāngwān)

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