Zhanjiang

See also: Zhànjiāng and zhànjiàng

English

Alternative forms

• Chan-chiang (Wade–Giles)
• Chankiang

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 湛江 (Zhànjiāng).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdʒɑn.dʒɑŋ/, /ˈdʒæn-/, /-dʒi.ɑŋ/, /-dʒæŋ/, /-dʒi.æŋ/

Proper noun

Zhanjiang

1. A prefecture-level city in Guangdong, China.
   • [1989, Patrick Reynolds, Tom Shachtman, “Smith and Libby”, in The Gilded Leaf‎^[1], Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 155:

     On April 4, he made the hop from Haiphong to Fort-Bayard (present-day Chanchiang, China) but almost ditched and had to lighten the plane by throwing things overboard.]

   • 2018 October 17, “Philippine navy vessel to take part in exercises in China”, in EFE‎^[2], archived from the original on 17 October 2018:

     Personnel stood in formation as they bid farewell to their family and friends during a ceremony at the port to send the cargo ship and its crew off on its journey to Zhanjiang, southern China, where the ACMEX maneuvers will be held, an epa-efe journalist reports.

Synonyms

• Tsamkong

Translations

city in Guangdong, China

• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 湛江 (zaam³ gong¹)

  Mandarin: 湛江 (zh) (Zhànjiāng)

• Hungarian: Csancsiang (hu)

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Zhanjiang”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[3], volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 3562, column 1