Nanzhang

Nan·zhang
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proper noun

A county of Xiangyang, Hubei, China.

Scrabble 21

Meanings

proper noun

alternative Nan-chang · alternative Nanchang

  1. A county of Xiangyang, Hubei, China.

    Traffic police officers push a car on a snow-covered road in Nanzhang county, in Hubei province.

    2018 January 7, Kinling Lo, Mimi Lau, “China braces for another wave of snowstorms, issues sleet alert”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 07 Jan 2018, People & Culture
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    Hubei initiatives included one far from the capital, about 145 miles upriver on the Han at Nanzhang county, where there were self-government educational activities as well as one in Yun county, far away in Hubei’s northwest corner.

    1995, Roger R. Thompson, “Notes”, in China's Local Councils in the Age of Constitutional Reform, 1898-1911, Harvard University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 200

    NANZHANG COUNTY IS SITUATED in the northwest of Hubei province, south of the Han River, neighboring Yi Cheng in the east, Bao Kang in the west, Xiangfan in the northeast, Gu Cheng in the northwest, Yuan An to the south, and Jing Men to the southeast.

    2015, Jack R. Lundbom, “A Brief Introduction of Christianity in Nanzhang County”, in Cao Jing, transl., On the Road to Siangyang: Covenant Mission in Mainland China 1890-1949, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 212

Origin

  1. Mandarin南漳
  2. EnglishNanzhang

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 南漳 (Nánzhāng).

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Translations

Chinese Cantonese 南漳
  • 南漳 (naam⁴ zoeng¹)county in central China
Chinese Mandarin 南漳
  • 南漳 (Nánzhāng)county in central China
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