Word.ws English Dictionary

Tongzhou

Syllables: Tong·zhou

Tongzhou proper noun: a district of Beijing, China.

Proper noun

Tongzhou

  1. A district of Beijing, China.
    • The centerpiece of the plan will be an administrative center in the Beijing suburb of Tongzhou, a historic move that reverses decades of urban planning that wedged government offices into the imperial city center.2015 July 11, Ian Johnson, “Chinese Officials to Restructure Beijing to Ease Strains on City Center”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 13 Jul 2015, ASIA PACIFIC
    • A residential project in the capital city that went on sale in October in the eastern district of Tongzhou offered a 1% discount to buyers if they made down-payments within seven days to one month, a salesperson told Reuters.2022 January 5, Liangping Gao, Ryan Woo, “Home prices in large Chinese cities show tentative signs of stabilising”, in Ana Nicolaci da Costa, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 05 Jan...
  2. A district of Nantong, Jiangsu, China.

Forms of Tongzhou

alternative formTungchow
alternative formT'ung-chou

Origin of Tongzhou

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 通州 (Tōngzhōu).

Questions about Tongzhou

What does Tongzhou mean?
Tongzhou means a district of Beijing, China.
What part of speech is Tongzhou?
Tongzhou is a proper noun.

Words near Tongzhou in the dictionary

  1. Tongxu
  2. Tongyong Pinyin
  3. Tongyu
  4. tongzhi
  5. tongzhis
  6. Tongzhou
  7. Toni
  8. Tonia
  9. Tonian
  10. tonic
  11. tonic accent

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: Tongzhou (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “Tongzhou.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/tongzhou. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.