Meanings
- A district of Shiyan, Hubei, China.
Xu Min, a resident of Shiyan's Zhangwan district, said her neighborhood entrance was being guarded by community workers and security staff.
2020 February 14, Yanan Wang, “Spike in China cases with new way of counting”, in Stars and Stripes, volume 78, number 215, →OCLC, page 164 more examples
Much of the land that belonged to the Maojian, Shiyan, Tumen, and Huaguo people communes were turned into urban land. Figure 7.2 shows that the former urban area was divided into Zhangwan and Maojian districts.
1994, Chung-Yuk Mok, China's Motor Cities: Industrialization and Urban Development under State Socialism, 1948-90, volume 2, →OCLC, page 317Urban residents were surveyed in two central districts including the Hongshan District and Hangjiang^([sic – meaning Jianghan]) District in Wuhan City as well as the Zhangwan District in Shiyan City.
2020, Wann-Ming Wey, editor, Sustainable Built Environment and Urban Growth Management, MDPI, →ISBN, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 171Local news reports said that when the explosion took place, people had been buying and selling produce and eating breakfast at the market, which is in a residential area in the city’s Zhangwan District. City officials said 913 households and merchants had been evacuated from the scene. The governor of Hubei, Wang Zhonglin, rushed to Shiyan to direct rescue efforts, the authorities said.
2021 June 13, Raymond Zhong, “Explosion at Produce Market Kills at Least 12 in China”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 14 Jun 2021, Asia PacificThe blast took place at about 6:30 a.m. local time in the Zhangwan district of Shiyan city, in Hubei province, according to local authorities.
2021 June 13, Lily Lee, “At least 12 killed in huge gas explosion in central Chinese city”, in CNN, archived from the original on 19 Apr 2023 - A subdistrict of Caidian district, Wuhan, Hubei, China.
- A subdistrict of Xiangzhou district, Xiangyang, Hubei, China.
Origin
- Mandarin張灣 /张湾
- EnglishZhangwan
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 張灣 /张湾 (Zhāngwān).
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Chinese Cantonese 張灣 /张湾
- 張灣 /张湾 (zoeng¹ waan¹)district in central China; subdistricts in central China; village in central China
Chinese Mandarin 張灣 /张湾
- 張灣 /张湾 (Zhāngwān)district in central China; subdistricts in central China; village in central China
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Zhangwan. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Zhangwan
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