Chongqing

See also:Chóngqìng,Chong-qing,andChong Qing

English

Alternative forms

• Chong-qing,Chong Qing(also fromHanyu Pinyin)
• Chungking(Postal Romanization)
• Chungching,Ch'ung-ch'ing(Wade–Giles)
• Tchang-king(19th century romanization)

Etymology

From theHanyu Pinyinromanization ofMandarinTrọng khánh/Trọng khánh(Chóngqìng).

Pronunciation

• (UK)IPA^(key):/t͡ʃɒŋˈt͡ʃɪŋ/
• (US)IPA^(key):/t͡ʃɑŋˈt͡ʃɪŋ/
• enPR:chŏngchǐngʹ

• Audio(Southern England):

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Proper noun

Chongqing

1. Adirect-administered municipalityand city in westernChina.
   • 2012April 18,Michael Wines,“Landslide Risk At Reservoir Cited in China”, inThe New York Times‎^[1],→ISSN,→OCLC,archived fromthe originalon19 April 2012,Asia Pacific‎^[2]:

     The latest proposed relocation would affect residents along hundreds of miles of twisting lakeshore from Jiangjin, in theChongqingmunicipality, to the dam’s location at Yichang, in Hubei Province.

   • 2014January 20, Didi Kirsten Tatlow, “‘She. Herself. Naked.': The Art ofHe Chengyao”,inThe New York Times‎^[3],→ISSN,→OCLC,archived fromthe originalon16 August 2023,Sinosphere‎^[4]:

     Her young parents, who worked in a pottery factory in Rongchang in present-dayChongqingmunicipality, conceived her while unmarried.

   • 2019April 11,Keith Bradsher,“For Chinese Raised in Prosperity, Shrugs in the Face of Layoffs”, inThe New York Times‎^[5],→ISSN,→OCLC,archived fromthe originalon12 April 2019,China Dispatch‎^[6]:

     For nearly four years, he worked in one of the three cavernous Ford Motor assembly plants inChongqing,a sprawling metropolis in southwestern China with almost 20 million people. Every day, he spent long hours putting brake fluid into the Ford Focus compact cars that glided past on the assembly line.

   • 2022January 7, Gabriel Crossley, “Multiple people trapped after explosion in China's Chongqing - state media”, in Michael Perry, editor,Reuters‎^[7],archived fromthe originalon07 January 2022,China:

     A canteen in China's southwest municipality ofChongqingcollapsed on Friday following an explosion suspected to be caused by a gas leak, leaving many trapped, according to reports from state media.

   • For more quotations using this term, seeCitations:Chongqing.

Derived terms

• Chongqing chicken
• Chongqing dog

Translations

a municipality in western China

• Arabic:تْشُونْغْتْشِينْغm(tšunḡtšīnḡ)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese:Trọng khánh/Trọng khánh(cung⁴hing³)

  Mandarin:Trọng khánh/Trọng khánh(zh)(Chóngqìng)

• Czech:Čchung-čching
• French:Chongqing(fr),(formerly)Tchongking(fr)
• Hindi:चाँगक्विंग(cāṅgakviṅg)
• Hungarian:Csungking(hu),Csungcsing
• Italian:Chongqing
• Japanese:Trọng khánh(ja)(じゅうけい, Jūkei)
• Korean:충칭(Chungching)
• Macedonian:Чонгчјингm(Čongčjing)
• Manchu:ᠴᡠᠩ
  ᡴᡳᠩ(cung king)
• Marathi:चाँगक्विंग(cŏṅgakviṅga)
• Portuguese:Chongqingf
• Russian:Чунци́нm(Čuncín)
• Spanish:Chunkín
• Thai:ฉงชิ่ง(chàngchîng)
• Turkish:Çongçing
• Urdu:چھون٘گ چِھن٘گ(choṅg chiṅg)
• Uyghur:چۇڭچىڭ(chungching)
• Vietnamese:Trùng Khánh(vi)
• Xibe:ᠴᡠᡢ
  ᠴᡞᡢ(cung cing)
• Zhuang:Cungzging

Further reading

• “Chongqing”,inCollins English Dictionary.
• “Chongqing,pn.”,inLexico,Dictionary.com;Oxford University Press,2019–2022.
• “Chongqing”,inOneLook Dictionary Search.
• “Chongqing”,inMerriam-Webster Online Dictionary,Springfield, Mass.:Merriam-Webster,1996–present.
• “Chongqing”inTheFreeDictionary.com,Huntingdon Valley, Pa.: Farlex, Inc., 2003–2025.
• Saul B. Cohen,editor (2008), “Chongqing”, inThe Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[8],2nd edition, volume 1,New York:Columbia University Press,→ISBN,→LCCN,→OCLC,page792,column 1

French

Alternative forms

• Tchoung King(dated)

Etymology

BorrowedfromMandarinTrọng khánh/Trọng khánh(Chóngqìng).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):/tʃɔŋt.ʃiŋ/

Proper noun

Chongqingf

1. Chongqing(adirect-administered municipalityand city in westernChina)

Portuguese

Etymology

FromMandarinTrọng khánh/Trọng khánh(Chóngqìng).

Proper noun

Chongqingf

1. Chongqing(adirect-administered municipalityand city in westernChina)

Spanish

Etymology

BorrowedfromMandarinTrọng khánh/Trọng khánh(Chóngqìng).

Proper noun

Chongqingf

1. Chongqing(adirect-administered municipalityand city in westernChina)