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Changge

Syllables: Chang·ge/(ˈ)t͡ʃæŋ(ˈ)ɡʌ/

Changge proper noun: a county-level city of Xuchang, Henan, China.

Proper noun

Changge

  1. A county-level city of Xuchang, Henan, China.
    • In 1958 a production brigade in Changko county, Honan province, improved its soil by deep plowing and greatly increased its grain output. Chairman Mao recommended its experience to the whole country and called on all the communes to do the same.[1976 August, “Land Improvement in China”, in China Reconstructs, volume XXV, number 8, Peking: China Welfare Institute, →OCLC, page 29, column 3
    • In the village of Pohu in Changko county, four children, left alone to play, fell into a well and were drowned. Accidents of this type, however, were not the only cause of infant and child mortality. Disease was the greatest killer.[1980 [1951 October], Carolyn Teich Adams, Kathryn Teich Winston, “Social Policies for Working Families: A Comparative Inventory”, in Mothers at Work: Public Policies in the United States, Sweden...

Examples of Changge in a sentence

  • They are two of six vessels unearthed in flawless condition from a cache in Changge County, Henan Province.1988, Robert L. Thorp, Son of Heaven: Imperial Arts of China, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 150:
  • “It’s been difficult for companies to resume work and production,” Zhang Yongchao, the office manager of the veteran affairs bureau of Changge, a city an hour from the Foxconn plant, told The Times.2022 November 18, Chang Che, John Liu, “An iPhone Factory Needs Workers. The Chinese Government Wants to Help.”, in The New York Times...

Forms of Changge

alternative formCh'ang-ko

Origin of Changge

From Mandarin 長葛 /长葛 (Chánggě).

Questions about Changge

What does Changge mean?
Changge means a county-level city of Xuchang, Henan, China.
How do you use Changge in a sentence?
They are two of six vessels unearthed in flawless condition from a cache in Changge County, Henan Province.
What part of speech is Changge?
Changge is a proper noun.
How do you pronounce Changge?
Changge is pronounced /(ˈ)t͡ʃæŋ(ˈ)ɡʌ/.

Words near Changge in the dictionary

  1. changest
  2. changeth
  3. changeup
  4. changeups
  5. Changfeng
  6. Changge
  7. changgi
  8. changgo
  9. Changhai
  10. Changhsingian
  11. Changhsu

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