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Yuzhong

Syllables: Yu·zhong/ˌjuːˈd͡ʒɒŋ/

Yuzhong proper noun: a district of Chongqing, China.

Proper noun (1)

Yuzhong

  1. A district of Chongqing, China.
    • Cruises to the Three Gorges are board at the Chaotianmen Dock in Yuzhong District (6310 0659), tickets require advanced booking.2004, Intercontinental's Best of China, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 401
    • The shopping area of Jiefangbei (“Monument of Liberation") in the Yuzhong District includes a wide variety of stores, recreation centers, hotels, and other facilities.2008, Chen Xuejian, editor, Travel Around China, HarperCollins, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 93
  2. A peninsula in Yuzhong district, Chongqing, China.
    • The city’s meteoric growth has left it with several million residents in the Yuzhong peninsula alone, and over 30 million in the municipal area! This gargantuan population and the city’s strategic importance led to Chongqing’s separation from its parent province, Szechuan, in 1997, and it was...2008, Simon Foster, “The Three Gorges”, in Adventure Guide: China (Hunter Travel Guides), Hunter Publishing, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 263
    • Once you’ve been to Chongqing, it is hard to think of the city and not at the same time picture the beautiful mountains, and the majestic Yangtze River circumfloating the densely built Yuzhong Peninsula, only to absorb the waters of Jialing River just moments later.2010, “Bigger Footprints”, in Asia Beyond Growth, Thames & Hudson, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 76, column 1

Proper noun (2)

Yuzhong

  1. A county of Lanzhou, Gansu, China.
    • In the Shanzhuang district of Yuzhong County in Gansu, the annual average per capita grain intake was only 20-50 kilograms, and of the 49 production teams in the whole district, 48 had an average per capita income of less than 40 yuan.1991, Bochuan He, “Questions of Pace and Regional Development”, in China on the Edge: The Crisis of Ecology and Development, China Books and Periodicals, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 148
    • In May 1939 China’s Nationalist government, worried about the use Japan might make of the remains, ordered the most holy objects — the caskets of Chinggis, and Borte and of Qulan and the black four-footed standard — transported to a Taoist temple in Yuzhong county, Gansu.2004, Christopher P. Atwood, “Eight White Yurts”, in Encyclopedia of Mongolia and the Mongol Empire, Facts on File, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 164, column 2

Examples of Yuzhong in a sentence

  • People young and old enjoy an afternoon on the banks of the Jialing River, facing the central Yuzhong district of Chongqing.2012 December 24, Matt McCann, “In Western China, Steep Highs and Steep Lows”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the...
  • The central peninsula area of Yuzhong District, between the Jialing River to the north and the Yangtze River to the south, is the most interesting and dynamic area of Chongqing.2015, Fodor's China (Fodor's), 9th edition, →ISBN, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 567:
  • The city’s meteoric growth has left it with several million residents in the Yuzhong peninsula alone, and over 30 million in the municipal area!2008, Simon Foster, “The Three Gorges”, in Adventure Guide: China (Hunter Travel Guides), Hunter Publishing, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 263:
  • The Yuzhong Peninsula, with a population of about 700,000 residents, has served as the business and historic center of the city (see Figure 1).2015, Yang Jiang et al., “Making Streets Smile to Regenerate Cities: A Case of Chongqing, China”, in Reinventing Planning: Examples from...

Origin of Yuzhong

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 渝中 (Yúzhōng, literally “central Chongqing”).

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 榆中 (Yúzhōng).

Questions about Yuzhong

What does Yuzhong mean?
Yuzhong means a district of Chongqing, China.
How do you use Yuzhong in a sentence?
People young and old enjoy an afternoon on the banks of the Jialing River, facing the central Yuzhong district of Chongqing.
What part of speech is Yuzhong?
Yuzhong is a proper noun.
How do you pronounce Yuzhong?
Yuzhong is pronounced /ˌjuːˈd͡ʒɒŋ/.

Words near Yuzhong in the dictionary

  1. yuzhe
  2. yuzhes
  3. Yuzhne
  4. Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk
  5. Yuzhnoukrainsk
  6. Yuzhong
  7. Yuzhou
  8. yuzlik
  9. yuzliks
  10. yuzluk
  11. yuzluks

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