English Explanatory Dictionary

Chongming

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A former town in Jiangsu, China.
  2. An island at the mouth of the Yangtze River in eastern China.
  3. A district of Shanghai, China, consisting of Chongming Island as well as Changxing, Hengsha, and other smaller islands in the Yangtze.

Pronunciation

/t͡ʃʊŋˈmɪŋ/ /t͡ʃɒŋˈmɪŋ/ cho͝ongʹmǐngʹ

Word forms

Chongming Chungming Ch'ung-ming Tsungming

Etymology

The atonal Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 崇明 (Chóngmíng, literally “Lofty & Bright”), initially given as the name of a town on the island in 705.

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