Chongming

Chong·ming
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/t͡ʃʊŋˈmɪŋ//t͡ʃɒŋˈmɪŋ/

proper noun

A former town in Jiangsu, China.

Scrabble 18

Meanings

proper noun

alternative Chungming · alternative Ch'ung-ming · alternative Tsungming

  1. historicalA former town in Jiangsu, China.
  2. An island at the mouth of the Yangtze River in eastern China.
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    Empty inside Hu, who has worked in marketing and supply chains for French companies like personal-care giant L'Oreal and sports retailer Decathlon, said that in her career she "appeared happy on the outside, but felt empty inside." She now sows organic, pesticide- and fertiliser-free sweet potatoes, long beans and other crops on rented plots of land with like-minded friends on Chongming, a large, primarily agricultural island on Shanghai's outskirts.[…] Liang, who moved to Chongming three years ago, has had to rapidly learn horticulture -- his farmer neighbours and internet websites help -- while dabbling in side work online for extra income.

    2021 November 17, “China's millennial 'new farmers' opt to live off the land”, in France 24, archived from the original on 17 Nov 2021
  3. A district of Shanghai, China, consisting of Chongming Island as well as Changxing, Hengsha, and other smaller islands in the Yangtze.

    At a regular press conference, an official from the Chongming district, an outlying island area, said most curbs would be kept in place, although it has reported zero cases outside quarantined areas and 90% of its 640,000-or-so residents were now in theory allowed to leave their homes.

    2022 April 21, Brenda Goh, Ella Cao, Marius Zaharia, “Shanghai people 'not free to fly' out of homes as COVID cases tick back up”, in Simon Cameron-Moore, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 01 Apr 2023

Synonyms & antonyms

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Origin

  1. Mandarin崇明
  2. EnglishChongming

The atonal Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 崇明 (Chóngmíng, literally “Lofty & Bright”), initially given as the name of a town on the island in 705.

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Translations

Chinese Cantonese 崇明
  • 崇明island and district in Shanghai, China
Chinese Mandarin 崇明
  • 崇明 (Chóngmíng)island and district in Shanghai, China
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APA

Chongming. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Chongming

MLA

“Chongming.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Chongming. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Chongming,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Chongming.

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