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Zhanjiang

Syllables: Zhan·jiang/ˈdʒɑn.dʒɑŋ/

Zhanjiang proper noun: a prefecture-level city of Guangdong, China.

Proper noun

Zhanjiang

  1. A prefecture-level city of Guangdong, China.
    • On April 4, he made the hop from Haiphong to Fort-Bayard (present-day Chanchiang, China) but almost ditched and had to lighten the plane by throwing things overboard.[1989, Patrick Reynolds, Tom Shachtman, “Smith and Libby”, in The Gilded Leaf, Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 155
    • Personnel stood in formation as they bid farewell to their family and friends during a ceremony at the port to send the cargo ship and its crew off on its journey to Zhanjiang, southern China, where the ACMEX maneuvers will be held, an epa-efe journalist reports.2018 October 17, “Philippine navy vessel to take part in exercises in China”, in EFE, archived from the original on 17 Oct 2018
    Synonyms:
    Tsamkong

Synonyms of Zhanjiang

Forms of Zhanjiang

alternative formChan-chiang
alternative formChankiang

Origin of Zhanjiang

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 湛江 (Zhànjiāng).

Questions about Zhanjiang

What does Zhanjiang mean?
Zhanjiang means a prefecture-level city of Guangdong, China.
What part of speech is Zhanjiang?
Zhanjiang is a proper noun.
How do you pronounce Zhanjiang?
Zhanjiang is pronounced /ˈdʒɑn.dʒɑŋ/.

Words near Zhanjiang in the dictionary

  1. Zhangzhou
  2. Zhangzhounese
  3. Zhangzhung
  4. Zhangzi
  5. Zhanhe
  6. Zhanjiang
  7. zhanmadao
  8. zhanmadaos
  9. Zhanna
  10. Zhans
  11. Zhao

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