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Zizhong

Syllables: Zi·zhong/ˌ(d)zɪˈd͡ʒɒŋ/

Zizhong proper noun: a county of Neijiang, Sichuan, China.

Proper noun

Zizhong

  1. A county of Neijiang, Sichuan, China.
    • There are, of course, a number of counties where the descendants of pre-Ch'ing natives still constitute a significant portion of the local population. Tzu-chung county, midway between Ch'eng-tu and Chungking testifies:
      Tsu-chung does not have any native clans that can be traced back more than six...[1959, Ping-ti Ho, Studies on the Population of China, 1368-1953, Harvard University Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 141
    • Born in Zizhong County of Sichuan Province, Fu is one of the promising new women poets appearing on the literary scene in recent years.1992, Julia C. Lin, transl., Women of the Red Plain: An Anthology of Contemporary Chinese Women's Poetry, Penguin Books, Chinese Literature Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 32

Examples of Zizhong in a sentence

  • More surprising, so does Zizhong in Sichuan Province, more than 500 miles from Henan.2001 December 11, Elisabeth Rosenthal, “Spread of AIDS in Rural China Ignites Protests”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from...
  • The unidentified youngster tossed the lit firecrackers into a sewer on a lawn in Zizhong county in Sichuan, southwestern China, on January 30, then ran away.2025 February 9, Alice Yan, “China boy behind firecracker sewer blast that destroys luxury cars faces US$39,000 claim”, in South China...

Forms of Zizhong

alternative formTzu-chung

Origin of Zizhong

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 資中 /资中 (Zīzhōng, literally “middle reaches of the Tuo River in Zi Prefecture (Sichuan)”).

Questions about Zizhong

What does Zizhong mean?
Zizhong means a county of Neijiang, Sichuan, China.
How do you use Zizhong in a sentence?
More surprising, so does Zizhong in Sichuan Province, more than 500 miles from Henan.
What part of speech is Zizhong?
Zizhong is a proper noun.
How do you pronounce Zizhong?
Zizhong is pronounced /ˌ(d)zɪˈd͡ʒɒŋ/.

Words near Zizhong in the dictionary

  1. zizanoic acid
  2. zizany
  3. Zizekian
  4. zizel
  5. zizels
  6. Zizhong
  7. Zizhou
  8. Zizian
  9. Zizians
  10. Zizilivakan
  11. ziziphin

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