Zhangjiakou

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Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 張家口 / 张家口 (Zhāngjiākǒu).

Pronunciation

  • enPR: jängʹjyäʹkōʹ[1]

Proper noun

Zhangjiakou

  1. A prefecture-level city of Hebei, China.
    • [1977, Jack Chen, “The Kuomintang's Last Gamble”, in The Sinkiang Story[2], New York, London: Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc.; Collier Macmillan Publishers, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 253:
      Sure of his superiority, Chiang launched a countrywide offensive to establish his supremacy. In October, his troops occupied the important North China city of Changchiakou (Kalgan) and a number of other cities evacuated by the People's Liberation Army in accordance with its strategy of not holding cities but concentrating on wiping out enemy troops.]
    • 2022 February 11, Remy Tumin, “A Beijing Games first: Real snow in Zhangjiakou.”, in The New York Times[3], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 12 February 2022[4]:
      A steady snow was falling in the morning at Zhangjiakou, and overcast skies threatened snow flurries in Yanqing and Beijing.

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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

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