English Explanatory Dictionary

Chengdu

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A subprovincial city, the provincial capital of Sichuan, in southwestern China.

Pronunciation

/t͡ʃɛŋ.du/ /t͡ʃʌŋ-/ /t͡ʃɑŋ-/ /t͡ʃæŋ-/ chǔngʹdo͞oʹ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Sapaa-Chengdu.wav

Word forms

Chengdu Ch'eng-tu Ch'êng-tu Chengtu

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 成都 (Chéngdū), supposedly bestowed upon it during its first founding by the ninth king of the Shu Kingdom's Kaiming dynasty when he removed his court there from nearby Pi County.

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