Meanings
- A district of Chongqing, China.
A statement from Wanzhou district police said the 48-year-old female passenger asked the driver to pull over after she missed her stop, but he didn’t.
2018 November 2, “Woman fought with driver, causing bus to fall in China river”, in AP News, archived from the original on 16 Aug 20222 more examples
After more than three hours in cramped vans and buses, we gave up on our hoped-for destination, a supposedly lovely town called Wanzhou, and debarked, at lunchtime, in Liangping, a gray, homely town we’d never heard of.
2010 December 24, Matt Gross, “Lost in China”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 04 Nov 2015, TravelIn Wanzhou district, northeast of Chongqing, floods have caused 227.8 million yuan ($31.5 million) worth of economic losses, state broadcaster CCTV said.
2023 July 5, Bernard Orr, Ella Cao, Ethan Wang, “Rain kills 15 in southwest China as Xi urges better defences”, in Andrea Ricci, Robert Birsel, editors, Reuters, archived from the original on 05 Jul 2023, Asia Pacific
Synonyms & antonyms
Origin
- Mandarin萬州 /万州
- EnglishWanzhou
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 萬州 /万州 (Wànzhōu).
More words from Mandarin
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Chinese Cantonese 萬州 /万州
- 萬州 /万州 (maan⁶ zau¹)district of Chongqing
Chinese Mandarin 萬州 /万州
- 萬州 /万州 (Wànzhōu)district of Chongqing
Cite this entry
Wanzhou. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Wanzhou
“Wanzhou.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Wanzhou. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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