Tongzhou

See also: Tōngzhōu

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 通州 (Tōngzhōu).

Proper noun

Tongzhou

  1. A district of Beijing, China.
    • 2015 July 11, Ian Johnson, “Chinese Officials to Restructure Beijing to Ease Strains on City Center”, in The New York Times‎[1], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 13 July 2015, ASIA PACIFIC‎[2]:
      The centerpiece of the plan will be an administrative center in the Beijing suburb of Tongzhou, a historic move that reverses decades of urban planning that wedged government offices into the imperial city center.
    • 2022 January 5, Liangping Gao, Ryan Woo, “Home prices in large Chinese cities show tentative signs of stabilising”, in Ana Nicolaci da Costa, editor, Reuters‎[3], archived from the original on 05 January 2022, Asian Markets‎[4]:
      A residential project in the capital city that went on sale in October in the eastern district of Tongzhou offered a 1% discount to buyers if they made down-payments within seven days to one month, a salesperson told Reuters.
  2. A district of Nantong, Jiangsu, China.

Translations

This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.