Changde

English

Alternative forms

• Ch'ang-te (Wade–Giles)
• Changteh

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 常德 (Chángdé).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t͡ʃæŋ.di/, /t͡ʃɑŋ-/, /-də/

Proper noun

Changde

1. A prefecture-level city in Hunan, China.
   • 2021 August 4, Sui-Lee Wee, Elsie Chen, “After Months as a Covid Success Story, China Tries to Tame Delta”, in The New York Times‎^[1], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 04 August 2021‎^[2]:

     Three other tourists from Zhangjiajie later traveled to the central city of Changde, taking a river cruise with dozens of other people. About 27 infections in at least six places have been linked to the boat ride.

Translations

prefecture-level city

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 常德 (zh) (Chángdé)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can
• Korean: 상덕(常德) (Sangdeok), 창더 (Changdeo)

Further reading

• Changde, Changteh at Google Ngram Viewer
• Saul B. Cohen, editor (2008), “Changde”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[3], 2nd edition, volume 1, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 725, column 1

Anagrams

• changed, ganched