Meanings
alternative Wu-kung
- A county of Xianyang, Shaanxi, China.
The heart of the centre is in Yangling town in Wukung County, 80 kilometres from Sian, the provincial capital.
[1978 August 2 [1978 August 1], “Shensi Selected as Site for Agricultural Research Center”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China, volume I, number 149, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Peking NCNA, →ISSN, →OCLC, page M 11 more example
According to a report last week by Huashang Daily, several schools in rural Shaanxi province are struggling to keep their pupils warm after their coal-fired heaters were dismantled during the anti-smog campaign. A primary school in Wugong county had neither a gas supply nor an electricity connection powerful enough to run the heaters on its air conditioning units, it said.
2017 December 4, “Natural gas crunch in northern China leaves hospitals, schools out in the cold”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 04 Dec 2017, Policies & Politics
Origin
- Mandarin武功
- EnglishWugong
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 武功 (Wǔgōng).
More words from Mandarin
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Chinese Cantonese 武功
- 武功 (mou⁵ gung¹)county
Chinese Mandarin 武功
- 武功 (Wǔgōng)county
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Wugong. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Wugong
“Wugong.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Wugong. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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