Zhongwei

See also: zhōngwèi

English

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 中衛 / 中卫 (Zhōngwèi).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d͡ʒɔŋˈweɪ/, enPR: jo͝ongʹwāʹ

Proper noun

Zhongwei

1. A prefecture-level city in Ningxia, China.
   • [1976 August 22, “Second quake”, in 自由中國週報 [Free China Weekly]‎^[2], volume XVII, number 33, Taipei, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 3, column 3:

     The Central Weather Bureau in Taipei pinpointed the epicenter of the August 16 earthquake on the Chinese mainland at a spot in the vicinity of Chungwei, Ninghsia province. […]
     Chungwei is located on a railway near the Great Wall. It is close to the boundary of Kansu. The earthquake was powerful enough to damage the ancient wall, according to seismologists.]

   • 1980 March, Rick Gore, “Journey to China's Far West”, in National Geographic Magazine‎^[3], →ISSN, →OCLC, page 310, column 1:

     WE GET OFF the train in the town of Zhongwei in the largely Muslim Ningxia autonomous region.

   • 1982, The Desert Realm‎^[4], National Geographic Society, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 223:

     At Zhongwei we disembarked to visit a place named Shapotou, which means "at the head of a sandy slope." The name describes the location, the edge of the Tengger, a shamo where dunes creep along the foothills of the Xiangshan, an east-west mountain range.

   • 2006 July 3, David Lague, “China devotes funds to impoverished west - Business - International Herald Tribune”, in The New York Times‎^[5], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 12 April 2023, International Business:

     The new projects approved by the commission include a rail link between Taiyuan, the capital of Shanxi Province in central China, and the city of Zhongwei in the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region in the northwest, state media reported.

Translations

prefecture-level city

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 中衛 / 中卫 (zh) (Zhōngwèi)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Zhongwei”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[6], volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 3565, column 2
• Zhongwei, Chungwei, Chung-wei at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.