Songzi

Song·zi
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proper noun

A county-level city of Jingzhou, Hubei, China.

Scrabble 16

Meanings

proper noun

alternative Sungtze · alternative Sung-tzu

  1. A county-level city of Jingzhou, Hubei, China.

    Leonhard and another American took an eerie four-hour drive from Songzi City to Wuhan airport to get out. For hours they were the only car on the freeway, she said, with trucks taking supplies to the idled city.

    2020 February 6, Siobhán O'Grady, Lenny Bernstein, Anna Fifield, William Wan, “For Americans, a nightmare escaping Wuhan, then 14 days of quarantine”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 06 Feb 2020, Health
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    Songzi, located on Jianghan Plain in southwest Hubei province on the southern side of the Yangtze River, had a population of 896,800 at the end of 1999. Songzi is a relatively well-developed agricultural county with fertile land that has produced the famous “Babao Cotton” for hundreds of years.

    2005, Unequal Chances: Family Background and Economic Success, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 238

Origin

  1. Mandarin松滋
  2. EnglishSongzi

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 松滋 (Sōngzī).

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Translations

Chinese Cantonese 松滋
  • 松滋county-level city in central China
Chinese Mandarin 松滋
  • 松滋 (Sōngzī)county-level city in central China
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APA

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

MLA

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

Chicago

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

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