Sangzhi

See also: sàngzhì

English

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 桑植 (Sāngzhí).

Proper noun

Sangzhi

  1. A county of Zhangjiajie, Hunan, China.
    • 2019 December 15, Gerry Shih, “They built a Chinese boomtown. It left them dying of lung disease with nowhere to turn.”, in The New York Times[1], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 16 December 2019, Asia & Pacific‎[2]:
      Steep sandstone ravines carve across Sangzhi county, a part of Hunan province with little industry or even agriculture. But multistory homes with faux-European balustrades line county road 420. They are the rewards of laboring in cities like Shenzhen — and monuments to the human cost.

Translations