The story
- Mandarin · borrowed from成都
- English todayChengdu
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 成都 (Chéngdū), supposedly bestowed upon it during its first founding by the ninth king of the Shu Kingdom's Kaiming dynasty when he removed his court there from nearby Pi County.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.