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Shijiazhuang
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Shíjiāzhuāng Shi-jia-zhuang
English
Alternative forms
en Shi-jia-zhuang also from _ Pinyin rare
en Shihchiachuang Shih-chia-chuang Wade-Giles
en Shihkiachwang Postal
Etymology
From the en cmn-pinyin -en 1972 Shabad Theodore Index China's Changing Map https://archive.org/details/chinaschangingma0000unse/ New York Frederick A. Praeger 71-178868 482667885 345, 362 https://archive.org/details/chinaschangingma0000unse/page/362/ Chinese place names are listed in three common spelling styles:(1) the Post Office system,(2) the Wade-Giles system,shown after the main entry(3) the Chinese Communists' own Pinyin romanization system, which also appears in parenthesesShihkiachwang (Shih-chia-chuang, Shijiazhuang) romanization of the en cmn - for 石家莊 Shíjiāzhuāng.
Pronunciation
en /ˌʃiːd͡ʒjɑːˈd͡ʒwɑŋ/
shûʹjyäʹjwängʹen 1952 Shihkiachwang or Shih-chia-chuang Leon E. Seltzer The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World https://archive.org/details/columbialippinco00selt/ Morningside Heights, NY Columbia University Press 802473294 1752 https://archive.org/details/columbialippinco00selt/page/1752/ 3
en Shi jia zhuang
Proper noun
en prefecture-level city/provincial capital p/Hebei in northern c/China.
February 2, 2009 w:David Barboza Death sentences given in Chinese milk scandal https://web.archive.org/web/20230810110026/https://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/22/world/asia/22iht-milk.2.19593612.html Asia Pacific The Intermediate People's Court in Shijiazhuang, in the northern province of Hebei, said the defendants had intentionally produced or sold dairy products laced with a toxic chemical called melamine, which was used to give falsely high protein readings but which caused kidney stones and other ailments in about 300,000 children last year.
January 19, 2021 Miriam Berger China rushes to build coronavirus quarantine center for 4,000 as it battles local outbreaks https://web.archive.org/web/20210120175054/https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/01/19/china-quarantine-center-coronavirus/ 20 January 2021 https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/01/19/china-quarantine-center-coronavirus/ China is racing to build a quarantine center to house 4,000 people in the northern city of Shijiazhuang, the epicenter of the country’s latest outbreak of the coronavirus, which Beijing has largely contained at an enormous cost to its 1.3 billion people.
Translations
a city of China
Arabic: ar شيجياتشوانج m šijyatšwāng, ar شِيجْيَاجْوَانْغ m šijyajwānḡ
Chinese:
Cantonese: yue 石家莊 sek6 gaa1 zong1
Mandarin: cmn 石家莊 Shíjiāzhuāng
Finnish: fi Shijiazhuang
Hindi: hi शिजियाझुआंग f
Hungarian: hu Sicsiacsuang
Japanese: ja 石家荘 せっかそう, Sekkasō
Korean: ko ^스자좡, ko 석가장(石家莊) Seokgajang
Macedonian: mk Шеџијаџуа́нг m
Polish: pl Shijiazhuang m-in
Russian: ru Шицзячжуа́н m
Vietnamese: vi Thạch Gia Trang
Zhuang: za Sizgyahcangh
References
Further reading
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