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Chengchow

Chengchow is the dated form of Zhengzhou.

Meaning of Zhengzhou

Proper noun

Zhengzhou

  1. A prefecture-level city, the provincial capital of Henan, in central China.
    • Now outside in Zhengzhou, the city worst hit at the moment, which has had record rains hitting the highest level of rainfall since records were kept six decades ago, the streets have turned into brown rivers which have swallowed up traffic, and in an even more alarming development the military is...July 21, 2021, Steven McDonald, 3:13 from the start, in Twelve die as rain floods train tunnel in China, BBC News, archived from the original on 24 Jul 2021

Origin of Chengchow

Borrowed from Mandarin 鄭州／郑州 (Zhèngzhōu).

Questions about Chengchow

What is Chengchow the dated form of?
Chengchow is the dated form of Zhengzhou.

Words near Chengchow in the dictionary

  1. Cheng-chou
  2. Chengalpattu
  3. Chengalpet
  4. Chengbei
  5. Chengcheng
  6. Chengchow
  7. Chengcing Lake
  8. Chengde
  9. chengdeite
  10. Chengdong
  11. Chengdu

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Chengchow (page history and authors); Zhengzhou (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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