Changkiakow

English

Pronunciation

  • enPR: jängʹjyäʹkōʹ[1]
  • (hyperforeign) enPR: chängʹjē-äʹkouʹ[2]

Proper noun

Changkiakow

  1. Alternative form of Zhangjiakou.
    • 1977 [1975], O. Borisov, translated by David Fidlon, The Soviet Union and the Manchurian Revolutionary Base (1945-1949)‎[3], Moscow, USSR: Progress Publishers, →OCLC, →OL, page 176:
      In December 1948, the 4th Route Army launched a final offensive on a 400-kilometre front extending from Tangku to Changkiakow.

Translations

References

  1. ^ Leon E. Seltzer, editor (1952), “Kalgan”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World‎[1], Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 898, column 1: “Kalgan (kälgänʹ), Chinese Changkiakow or Chang-chia-k’ou (both: jängʹjyäʹkōʹ), […]”
  2. ^ “Chang-chia-k’ou or Chang·kia·kow”, in The International Geographic Encyclopedia and Atlas‎[2], Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1979, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 145, column 2
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