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Chungking

Chungking is the dated form of Chongqing.

Meaning of Chongqing

Proper noun

Chongqing

  1. A direct-administered municipality and city in western China.
    • Nanking attempted to maintain a nominal sovereignty by appointing Liu Xiang commissioner for the suppression of banditry (that is, communism) in 1933, but the province really eluded its control, and continued to do so until 1938, when the central government was driven back to Chongqing.1977, Jean Chesneaux, Françoise Le Barbier, Marie-Claire Bergère, “China Under the Guomindang from 1927 to 1934”, in Paul Auster, Lydia Davis, transl., China from the 1911 Revolution to Liberation...

Origin of Chungking

From the Jesuit romanization of the Nanking court dialect Mandarin 重慶 /重庆 (Chóngqìng), from before the modern palatalization of [kʰ] to [t͡ɕʰ], reinforced by Postal Romanization.

Questions about Chungking

What is Chungking the dated form of?
Chungking is the dated form of Chongqing.

Words near Chungking in the dictionary

  1. chungi
  2. chungju
  3. chungke
  4. chungkee
  5. Chungkham
  6. Chungking
  7. Chungkuo Kuomintang
  8. Chungli
  9. Chungming
  10. Chungnanhai
  11. Chungsha

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Chungking (page history and authors); Chongqing (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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