Meanings
alternative Ch'eng-chung
- A district of Xining, Qinghai, China.
The party members of the Nantan office in Chengzhong District of the city of Xining, in their educational activities, carried out criticism and self-criticism in a side-by-side comparison with the standards for party members.
1982 October 15 [1982 July 21], Weihai Yu, “PARTY EDUCATION EMPHASIZED IN QINGHAI PROVINCE”, in CHINA REPORT POLITICAL, SOCIOLOGICAL AND MILITARY AFFAIRS, number 350, United States Joint Publications Research Service, page 541 more example
The incident happened around 5:30 p.m. local time on a heavily trafficked street in Xining, the capital of Qinghai province, state media reports. It marks the latest instance of a sinkhole opening around busy or rapidly developing parts of China. Video from the scene captured by CCTV and circulating on Chinese social media showed people gathered at a bus stop outside the Great Wall Hospital in the city’s Chengzhong District when the road suddenly buckles, sending people on the street running.
2020 January 14, Kim Bellware, “Huge sinkhole swallows bus in China and explodes, killing at least six”, in Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 14 Jan 2020; republished as Bus falls into China sinkhole (Stars and Stripes), volume 78, number 193, 15 January 2020, →OCLC, page 12 - A subdistrict of Yingcheng, Xiaogan, Hubei, China.
Origin
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 城中 (Chéngzhōng).
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Chinese Cantonese 城中
- 城中a subdistrict in central China
Chinese Mandarin 城中
- 城中 (Chéngzhōng)a subdistrict in central China
Rhymes & wordplay
Rhymes with Chengzhong
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Chengzhong. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Chengzhong
“Chengzhong.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Chengzhong. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Chengzhong,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Chengzhong.
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