Meanings
- A county of Zhangjiajie, Hunan, China.
Steep sandstone ravines carve across Sangzhi county, a part of Hunan province with little industry or even agriculture. But multistory homes with faux-European balustrades line county road 420. They are the rewards of laboring in cities like Shenzhen — and monuments to the human cost.
2019 December 15, Gerry Shih, “They built a Chinese boomtown. It left them dying of lung disease with nowhere to turn.”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 16 Dec 2019, Asia & Pacific
Origin
- Mandarin桑植
- EnglishSangzhi
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 桑植 (Sāngzhí).
More words from Mandarin
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Chinese Cantonese 桑植
- 桑植county
Chinese Mandarin 桑植
- 桑植 (Sāngzhí)county
Cite this entry
Sangzhi. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Sangzhi
“Sangzhi.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Sangzhi. Accessed November 4, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Sangzhi,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Sangzhi.
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