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Changsha
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Chángshā Ch'ang-sha
English
<dab!>
Alternative forms
en Ch'ang-sha Wade-Giles
Etymology
From en cmn 長沙.
Pronunciation
en /(ˈ)t͡ʃæŋˈʃɑ/ /t͡ʃɑŋ-/
chängʹshäʹen 1952 Changsha or Ch’ang-sha Leon E. Seltzer The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World https://archive.org/details/columbialippinco00selt/ Morningside Heights, NY Columbia University Press 802473294 370 https://archive.org/details/columbialippinco00selt/page/370/ 1en 1979 Ch’ang-sha Chang·sha The International Geographic Encyclopedia and Atlas https://archive.org/details/internationalgeo00houg/ Boston Houghton Mifflin Company 0-395-27170-3 79-2721 5171913 145 https://archive.org/details/internationalgeo00houg/page/145/ 2
en ɑː 2
en Chang sha
Proper noun
en prefecture-level city/provincial capital p/Hunan in south-central c/China.
en 1669 1665 John Nievhoff w:John Ogilby An embassy from the East-India Company An Embassy from the Eaſt-India Company of the United Provinces, to the Grand Tartar Cham Emperour of China https://archive.org/details/McGillLibrary-126081-3026/ nl John Macock London 407084353 14 https://archive.org/details/McGillLibrary-126081-3026/page/n25/ Changxa commands over eleven Cities, as Changxa, Siangtan, Siangin, Ninghiang, Lieuyang, Liling, Jeyang, Sianghang, Xeu, Ganhoa, Chaling. on
en https://archive.org/details/mobot31753002152731/ 1868 w:Albert S. Bickmore Sketch of a Journey from Canton to Hankow, through China w:American Journal of Science and Arts XLVI 16 https://archive.org/details/mobot31753002152731/page/16/ The most important place for trade in Hunan is Siangtan, 90 li south of Changsha.
en https://archive.org/details/sim_free-china-weekly_1976-07-25_17_29/ July 25, 1976 L. Chen Athletics under Maoist politics zh:自由中國週報<t:Free China Weekly> XVII 29 0016-0318 1786626 Taipei 3 https://archive.org/details/sim_free-china-weekly_1976-07-25_17_29/page/n2/ A Communist report from Hunan has quoted "a ranking comrade of the Party Central" as having issued this instruction: "Athletes should be trained from childhood." It is believed that Mao made the remark.Accordingly, most of the table tennis winners have been teenagers. The youngest at an athletic meet in Changsha in 1973 was a boy of 14.
en 05/17/2016 Cherie Chan Chinese gay couple marry despite court ruling https://web.archive.org/web/20160518111650/https://www.dw.com/en/chinese-gay-couple-marry-despite-court-ruling/a-19263412 18 May 2016 https://www.dw.com/en/chinese-gay-couple-marry-despite-court-ruling/a-19263412 w:DW News LGBT RIGHTS In a restaurant in Changsha, the capital of central China's Hunan province, Hu Mingliang and Sun Wenlin exchanged their wedding rings, and received blessings from over 200 friends, relatives, as well as LGBT rights activists from around the country.
en March 9, 2023 w:Manohla Dargis ‘Stonewalling’ Review: A Young Woman’s Exchange Value w:The New York Times https://web.archive.org/web/20230309192454/https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/09/movies/stonewalling-review.html 09 March 2023 0362-4331 1645522 Movies Lynn (Yao Honggui) and her boyfriend, Zhang (Liu Long), are shacked up in a hotel in the city of Changsha in Hunan province.
en county preflcity/Changsha p/Hunan c/China.
en historic en former island in the Yangtze estuary in eastern c/China, now part of Chongming Island.
en town district/Kaizhou direct-administered municipality/Chongqing c/China.
en township county/Zongyang preflcity/Tongling p/Anhui c/China.
en village town/Huangqi county/Lianjiang preflcity/Fuzhou p/Fujian c/China.
Translations
city in south-central China and other locations in China
Arabic: ar تْشَانْغ شَا f tšang šā, ar تْشَانْغْشَا f tšangšā
Chinese:
Cantonese: yue 長沙
Eastern Min: cdo 長沙
Mandarin: cmn 長沙
Xiang: hsn 長沙
Finnish: fi Changsha
Hindi: hi चांगशा f
Hungarian: hu Csangsa
Japanese: ja 長沙 ちょうさ, Chōsa
Korean: ko ^창사, ko ^장사(長沙)
Lao: lo ຊາງຊາ
Manchu: mnc ᠴᠠᠩ ᡧᠠ
Polish: pl Changsha f
Russian: ru Чанша́ f
Thai: th ฉางชา
Uyghur: ug چاڭشا
Vietnamese: vi Trường Sa
Zhuang: za Cangzsah
References
Further reading
Changsha, Ch'ang-sha
en 2008 Changsha 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 726 https://archive.org/details/columbiagazettee0000unse_l7h3/page/726/ 1