Zhanjiang

See also: Zhànjiāng and zhànjiàng

English

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Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin[1] romanization of the Mandarin 湛江 (Zhànjiāng).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈdʒɑn.dʒɑŋ/, /ˈdʒæn-/, /-dʒi.ɑŋ/, /-dʒæŋ/, /-dʒi.æŋ/
  • IPA(key): /ˈdʒɑŋdʒiˈɑŋ/[2]
  • IPA(key): /dʒanˈdʒjaŋ/[3]
  • enPR: jänʹjyängʹ[4][5]
  • Hyphenation: Zhan‧jiang

Proper noun

Zhanjiang

  1. A prefecture-level city of Guangdong, China.
    • [1989, Patrick Reynolds, Tom Shachtman, “Smith and Libby”, in The Gilded Leaf‎[3], Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 155:
      On April 4, he made the hop from Haiphong to Fort-Bayard (present-day Chanchiang, China) but almost ditched and had to lighten the plane by throwing things overboard.]
    • 2018 October 17, “Philippine navy vessel to take part in exercises in China”, in EFE‎[4], archived from the original on 17 October 2018:
      Personnel stood in formation as they bid farewell to their family and friends during a ceremony at the port to send the cargo ship and its crew off on its journey to Zhanjiang, southern China, where the ACMEX maneuvers will be held, an epa-efe journalist reports.

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References

  1. ^ Blunden, Caroline (1998), “Gazetteer”, in Cultural Atlas of China‎[1], Revised edition, Facts on File, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 232, 237: “Names in italics represent the Wade-Giles equivalent of the preceding Pinyin transcription. […] Zhanjiang/Chan-chiang/Leizhou”
  2. ^ “Zhanjiang”, in Collins English Dictionary.
  3. ^ “Zhanjiang, pn.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
  4. ^ “Zhanjiang”, in TheFreeDictionary.com, Huntingdon Valley, Pa.: Farlex, Inc., 2003–2026
  5. ^ Leon E. Seltzer, editor (1952), “Chankiang or Chan-chiang”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World‎[2], Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 370, column 3

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