Hanzhong

See also: Hànzhōng

English

Alternative forms

• Han-chung (Wade–Giles)
• Hanchung

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 漢中／汉中 (Hànzhōng).

Proper noun

Hanzhong

1. A prefecture-level city in Shaanxi, China.
   • 2010 May 12, “7 Children Killed in School in China”, in The New York Times‎^[1], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 16 May 2010‎^[2]:

     The Xinhua state news agency said the attack occurred at 8 a.m. at a kindergarten in Nanzheng County of Hanzhong City.
     Liu Xiaoming, deputy director of the propaganda department of Hanzhong City, confirmed the deaths and injuries.

   • 2022 August 15, Vic Chiang, Christian Shepherd, “In China, civil servant chic is the new look for straitened times”, in The Washington Post‎^[3], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on August 15, 2022, Asia‎^[4]:

     For Wang, the recent graduate, the CCP badge is essential. Raised in Hanzhong, a city of 3 million in Shaanxi province, by two civil servant parents, Wang applied to join the party in his first year at college. Uploading photos of himself dressed in dark suits with the bright red emblem of the party pinned to his lapel “gives people the feeling that you are mature and serious,” he said.

Translations

prefecture-level city of Shaanxi, China

• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 漢中／汉中 (hon³ zung¹)

  Mandarin: 漢中／汉中 (zh) (Hànzhōng)

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Hanzhong”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[5], volume 2, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1232, column 1