Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

chongming

/t͡ʃʊŋˈmɪŋ/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
Chong-ming
IPA
/t͡ʃʊŋˈmɪŋ/
18
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars

Meaning

name

A former town in Jiangsu, China.

name

An island at the mouth of the Yangtze River in eastern China.

name

A district of Shanghai, China, consisting of Chongming Island as well as Changxing, Hengsha, and other smaller islands in the Yangtze.

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Etymology

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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Questions

How do you pronounce chongming?
The recorded pronunciation is /t͡ʃʊŋˈmɪŋ/.
What does chongming mean?
A former town in Jiangsu, China.
Where does chongming come 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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