Ch'ang-te
English
Etymology
From Mandarin 常德 (Chángdé), Wade–Giles romanization: Chʻang²-tê².[1]
Pronunciation
- enPR: chängʹdǔʹ
Proper noun
Ch'ang-te
- Alternative form of Changde
- 1971, Liew Kit Siong, Struggle for Democracy: Sung Chiao-jen and the 1911 Chinese Revolution, University of California Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 109:
- At the time of the China Resurgence Society, when Sung was preparing a revolt in the prefecture of Ch’ang-te, Chiang I-wu was a student in a teachers’ training school in Ch’ang-te, and he apparently shared Sung’s activities.
- 1976, Charlton M. Lewis, Prologue to the Chinese Revolution: The Transformation of Ideas and Institutions in Hunan Province, 1891-1907, Harvard University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 99:
- In Hunan the Left Army was located at Ch’ang-te under a Ch’ang-te merchant named Ch’en Yu-lung.
- 1988, Lyman P. Van Slyke, Yangtze: Nature History and the River, Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 110:
- In West Hunan (1943), a collection of essays about the places he knew so well, Shen describes the waterfront scene in Ch'ang-te, on the Yuan River.
Translations
Changde — see Changde
References
- Changde, Wade-Giles romanization Ch’ang-te, in Encyclopædia Britannica
Further reading
- “Ch'ang-te”, in Collins English Dictionary.
- “Ch’ang-te”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
- “Ch'ang-te” in TheFreeDictionary.com, Huntingdon Valley, Pa.: Farlex, Inc., 2003–2024.
- “Ch’ang-te or Chang·teh”, in The International Geographic Encyclopedia and Atlas, Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1979, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 146, column 1
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