Meanings
alternative Chang-ch'iao
- A town in Yanling, Xuchang, Henan, China, formerly a township.
The group of seven had driven up to a village in Zhangqiao town in a minivan late one September night. There, they used home-made traps to catch the geckos, which they planned to sell. But they were caught and the 1,689 geckos that they caught were released back into the wild.
2014 December 22, Zhuang Pinghui, “Chinese men fined for catching almost 1,700 protected wild geckos in one night”, in South China Morning Post, archived from the original on 23 Dec 2014
Origin
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 張橋／张桥 (Zhāngqiáo).
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Chinese Cantonese 張橋 /张桥
- 張橋 /张桥town in Yanling, Xuchang, Henan, China
Chinese Mandarin 張橋 /张桥
- 張橋 /张桥 (Zhāngqiáo)town in Yanling, Xuchang, Henan, China
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