Zhangpu

See also: Zhāngpǔ

English

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 漳浦 (Zhāngpǔ).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈt͡ʃɑŋˈpu/ (unaspirated)
  • (hyperforeign) enPR: jängʹpo͞oʹ[1]

Proper noun

Zhangpu

  1. A county of Zhangzhou, Fujian, China.
    • [1972, Evelyn Sakakida Rawski, Agricultural Change and the Peasant Economy of South China[2], Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 17:
      In Chang-p’u county (Chang-chou prefecture), for example, a gazetteer records 1.475 tou of seed per mou were used, while in Hai-ch’eng, its neighbor to the east, a figure of 1.2 tou of seed per mou is noted.]
    • 2006 February 10, “Bird flu outbreak puzzles Chinese officials”, in The New York Times[3], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 14 April 2023[4]:
      Seven of the people infected have died. The woman who fell ill in the latest case lived in Zhangpu County in the southeastern coastal province of Fujian.

Translations

References

  1. ^ Leon E. Seltzer, editor (1952), “Changpu or Chang-p’u”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World[1], Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 370, column 1

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