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Chenggu
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chēnggū
English
Chenggu County
Alternative forms
en Ch'eng-ku Wade-Giles
Etymology
From the en cmn-pinyin - romanization of the en cmn 城固.
Pronunciation
en /t͡ʃɛŋ.ɡu/ /t͡ʃʌŋ-/ /t͡ʃɑŋ-/ /t͡ʃæŋ-/, chǔngʹgo͞oʹen 1952 Chengku or Ch’eng-ku Leon E. Seltzer The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World https://archive.org/details/columbialippinco00selt/ Morningside Heights, NY Columbia University Press 802473294 383 https://archive.org/details/columbialippinco00selt/page/383/ 1
en Cheng gu
Proper noun
en county prefecture-level city/Hanzhong province/Shaanxi c/China.
en 1991 1987 Zongxu Zou w:Susan Whitfield The Land Within the Passes: A History of Xian https://archive.org/details/landwithinpasses00zouz/ Viking Press Viking 0-670-82391-0 88-51496 428519978 7642783M 138 https://archive.org/details/landwithinpasses00zouz/page/138/ Zhang Qian, buried in his home town in Chenggu County, was the first envoy in Chinese history to visit the western regions and thus form the initial link between China and her western neighbours.
en 2002 Chu Yin-tsung McIntyre The Snow Storm Over Temple Ta-er https://archive.org/details/snowstormovertem0000mcin/ Pittsburg, Penn. w:Dorrance Publishing Co. 0-8059-5185-7 55630830 1 https://archive.org/details/snowstormovertem0000mcin/page/1/ The policy-making officials in the war capital of Chung-king had decided to relocate the Northwestern Teachers’ College from Ch’êng-ku county, southern Shênsi province, to Shih-li-tien, literally Ten-miles-distanced store, a suburb of the city of Lanchou, Kansu province. on
en SEPTEMBER 3, 2007 Chinese primary school headmaster jailed for rape https://web.archive.org/web/20230402105348/https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-china-rape/chinese-primary-school-headmaster-jailed-for-rape-idUKPEK29113220070903 02 April 2023 w:Reuters World News Li Jianguo, 49, headmaster of a rural primary school in Chenggu county in the northwester province of Shaanxi, was convicted of crimes committed from October of last year to May 2007.
Translations
county
Chinese:
Cantonese: yue 城固
Mandarin: cmn 城固
Japanese: ja
References
Further reading
en 2008 Chenggu Saul B. Cohen The Columbia Gazetteer of the World https://archive.org/details/columbiagazettee0000unse_l7h3/ 2nd 1 New York Columbia University Press 978-0-231-14554-1 2008009181 212893637 750 https://archive.org/details/columbiagazettee0000unse_l7h3/page/750/ 3
Anagrams
en cegghnu Gucheng