Chengdu

See also: chéngdu, chéngdù, and Chéngdū

English

Etymology

From Chinese 成都 (Chéngdū, “Turning into a Capital; Established Capital”), supposedly bestowed upon it during its first founding by the ninth king of the Shu Kingdom's Kaiming dynasty when he removed his court there from nearby Pi County.

Proper noun

Chengdu

A sub-provincial city in southwest China; capital of Sichuan Province.

Translations

capital of Sichuan province, China

Arabic: شِينْغْدُو‎‎ m (šinḡdū), تْشِينْغْدُو‎‎ m (tšingdū)
Chinese:
Cantonese: 成都 (sing⁴dou¹)

Mandarin: 成都 (zh) (Chéngdū)
Hungarian: Csengtu
Japanese: 成都 (せいと, Seito)
Khmer: ចេងទូ (cəŋtuu)
Korean: 청두 (Cheongdu)

Macedonian: Ченгду n (Čéngdu)
Marathi: चेंग्डू n (ceṃgḍū)
Portuguese: Chengdu f
Russian: Чэнду́ m (Čɛndú)
Sichuan Yi: ꍯꄖ (che du)
Tibetan: ཁྲེན་ཏུ (khren tu)
Vietnamese: Thành Đô

Anagrams

gunched

Portuguese

Proper noun

Chengdu f

Chengdu (a city, the provincial capital of Sichuan, China)

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