Hanzhong

Han·zhong
H4A1N1Z10H4O1N1G2

proper noun

A prefecture-level city of Shaanxi, China.

Scrabble 24

Meanings

proper noun

alternative Han-chung · alternative Hanchung

  1. A prefecture-level city of Shaanxi, China.

    The Xinhua state news agency said the attack occurred at 8 a.m. at a kindergarten in Nanzheng County of Hanzhong City. Liu Xiaoming, deputy director of the propaganda department of Hanzhong City, confirmed the deaths and injuries.

    2010 May 12, “7 Children Killed in School in China”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 16 May 2010
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    For Wang, the recent graduate, the CCP badge is essential. Raised in Hanzhong, a city of 3 million in Shaanxi province, by two civil servant parents, Wang applied to join the party in his first year at college. Uploading photos of himself dressed in dark suits with the bright red emblem of the party pinned to his lapel “gives people the feeling that you are mature and serious,” he said.

    2022 August 15, Vic Chiang, Christian Shepherd, “In China, civil servant chic is the new look for straitened times”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 15 Aug 2022, Asia

Origin

  1. Mandarin漢中 /汉中
  2. EnglishHanzhong

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 漢中 /汉中 (Hànzhōng).

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Translations

Chinese Cantonese 漢中 /汉中
  • 漢中 /汉中 (hon³ zung¹)prefecture-level city of Shaanxi, China
Chinese Mandarin 漢中 /汉中
  • 漢中 /汉中 (Hànzhōng)prefecture-level city of Shaanxi, China
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