Chongming.
A former town in Jiangsu, China.
Meaning & usage
A former town in Jiangsu, China.
An island at the mouth of the Yangtze River in eastern China.
A district of Shanghai, China, consisting of Chongming Island as well as Changxing, Hengsha, and other smaller islands in the Yangtze.
Where this word comes from
The atonal Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 崇明 (Chóngmíng, literally “Lofty & Bright”), initially given as the name of a town on the island in 705.
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