Etymology

chengguan

Cheng·guan
C3H4E1N1G2G2U1A1N1

Today it means: An officer of a City Urban Administrative and Law Enforcement Bureau in China. Full definition →

Mandarin 城關 /城关
Ask AI about its historyChatGPTClaudePerplexityGoogle AIGrok

chengguan · noun1

From Mandarin 城管 (chéngguǎn), short for 城市管理部門 (chéngshì guǎnlǐ bùmén).

Chengguan · proper noun2

  1. Mandarin · borrowed from城關 /城关
  2. English todayChengguan

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 城關 /城关 (Chéngguān).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.