Zhongwei
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See also: zhōngwèi
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 中衛/中卫 (Zhōngwèi).
Pronunciation
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Zhongwei
- A prefecture-level city in Ningxia, China.
- [1976 August 22, “Second quake”, in 自由中國週報 [Free China Weekly][2], volume XVII, number 33, Taipei, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 3, column 3:
- The Central Weather Bureau in Taipei pinpointed the epicenter of the August 16 earthquake on the Chinese mainland at a spot in the vicinity of Chungwei, Ninghsia province. […]
Chungwei is located on a railway near the Great Wall. It is close to the boundary of Kansu. The earthquake was powerful enough to damage the ancient wall, according to seismologists.]
- 1980 March, Rick Gore, “Journey to China's Far West”, in National Geographic Magazine[3], →ISSN, →OCLC, page 310, column 1:
- WE GET OFF the train in the town of Zhongwei in the largely Muslim Ningxia autonomous region.
- 1982, The Desert Realm[4], National Geographic Society, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 223:
- At Zhongwei we disembarked to visit a place named Shapotou, which means "at the head of a sandy slope." The name describes the location, the edge of the Tengger, a shamo where dunes creep along the foothills of the Xiangshan, an east-west mountain range.
- 2006 July 3, David Lague, “China devotes funds to impoverished west - Business - International Herald Tribune”, in The New York Times[5], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 12 April 2023, International Business:
- The new projects approved by the commission include a rail link between Taiyuan, the capital of Shanxi Province in central China, and the city of Zhongwei in the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region in the northwest, state media reported.
Translations
[edit]prefecture-level city
References
[edit]- ^ Leon E. Seltzer, editor (1952), “Chungwei”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World[1], Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 408, column 2
Further reading
[edit]- Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Zhongwei”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World[6], volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 3565, column 2
- Zhongwei, Chungwei, Chung-wei at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.
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