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Ch'ang-chou

Ch'ang-chou is the alternative form of Changzhou.

Meaning of Changzhou

Proper noun (1)

Changzhou

  1. A prefecture-level city in southern Jiangsu, China.
    • The Cultural Revolution paved the way for the full implementation of Chairman Mao’s whole set of principles of ‘walking on two legs’, and in the fair one saw many of the advanced industrial products on display which were actually manufactured by medium-sized and small enterprises. A precision...[1970, Tsung-ying Lee, “EASTERN DIARY”, in Eastern Horizon, volume IX, number 6, Hong Kong: Eastern Horizon Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 4, column 2
    Synonyms:
    Wutsin

Proper noun (2)

Changzhou

  1. A district of Wuzhou, Guangxi autonomous region, China.
  2. An island of Huangpu district, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China.

Origin of Ch'ang-chou

From Mandarin 常州 (Chángzhōu) Wade–Giles romanization: Chʻang²-chou¹.

Questions about Ch'ang-chou

What is Ch'ang-chou the alternative form of?
Ch'ang-chou is the alternative form of Changzhou.

Words near Ch'ang-chou in the dictionary

  1. Ch Supt
  2. Ch'ang Chiang
  3. Ch'ang-an
  4. Ch'ang-ch'un
  5. Ch'ang-chih
  6. Ch'ang-chou
  7. Ch'ang-pai
  8. Ch'ang-sha
  9. Ch'ang-t'ai
  10. Ch'ang-te
  11. Ch'ang-tzu

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Ch'ang-chou (page history and authors); Changzhou (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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