Zhongxiang

See also: zhōngxiàng and Zhōngxiáng

English

Alternative forms

• Chungsiang (Postal Romanization)
• Chung-hsiang, Chunghsiang (Wade–Giles)

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 鍾祥／钟祥 (Zhōngxiáng).

Pronunciation

• enPR: jo͝ongʹshyängʹ

Proper noun

Zhongxiang

1. A county-level city in Jingmen, Hubei, China.
   • [1738, “PROVINCE VI. HU-QUANG.”, in A Description of the Empire of China and Chinese-Tartary, Together with the Kingdoms of Korea, and Tibet‎^[2], volume I, London, translation of original by J. B. Du Halde, →OCLC, page 99:

     The Third City, Ngan-lo-fu.
     THIS City is built on the River Han in a vaſt Plain equally agreeable and fertile.]

   • 2017 August 21 [2017 August 18], Kiki Zhao, “A Chinese Poet’s Unusual Path From Isolated Farm Life to Celebrity”, in The New York Times‎^[3], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2017-09-07, Asia Pacific‎^[4]:

     In the shade near the house she wrote at a low table, struggling to control her shaking body — a symptom of the cerebral palsy that she has lived with since she was born in this village in the central province of Hubei. […]
     She was appointed deputy chairwoman of the Federation of Literary and Art Circles in the nearby city of Zhongxiang.

Translations

county-level city in central China

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 鍾祥／钟祥 (zh) (Zhōngxiáng)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Zhongxiang”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[5], volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 3565, column 2
• Zhongxiang, Chungsiang, Chunghsiang, Chung-hsiang at Google Ngram Viewer