Alternative forms

• Ch'ang-ch'un (Wade–Giles)

Etymology

From MandarinCategory:English terms borrowed from Mandarin#CHANGCHUNCategory:English terms derived from Mandarin#CHANGCHUN 長春 / 长春 (Chángchūn).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t͡ʃæŋˈt͡ʃʊn/Category:English 2-syllable words#CHANGCHUNCategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#CHANGCHUN
• enPR: chängʹcho͞onʹ^[1]
• enPR: chängʹcho͝onʹ^[2][3]
• Rhymes: -ʊnCategory:Rhymes:English/ʊn#CHANGCHUNCategory:Rhymes:English/ʊn/2 syllables#CHANGCHUN
• Hyphenation: Chang‧chun

• Audio (Southern England):

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  Category:English terms with audio pronunciation#CHANGCHUN

Proper noun

ChangchunCategory:English lemmas#CHANGCHUNCategory:English proper nouns#CHANGCHUNCategory:English uncountable nouns#CHANGCHUNCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#CHANGCHUNCategory:Pages with entries#CHANGCHUNCategory:Pages with 2 entries#CHANGCHUN

1. A prefecture-level city and subprovincial city, the provincial capital of Jilin, in northeastern ChinaCategory:en:Changchun#CHANGCHUNCategory:en:Prefecture-level cities of Jilin, China#CHANGCHUNCategory:en:Prefecture-level cities of Jilin, China#CHANGCHUNCategory:en:Cities in Jilin, China#CHANGCHUNCategory:en:Cities in China#CHANGCHUNCategory:en:Provincial capitals of China#CHANGCHUNCategory:en:Places in Jilin, China#CHANGCHUNCategory:en:Places in China#CHANGCHUN.
   • 1915 August 24, Charles K. Moser, “China-Manchuria”, in Supplement to Commerce Reports‎, number 52h, Harbin, page 3:

     It costs but from $0.86 to $1.14 per ton to load Japanese coal into the cars at the mines, and as these are under the control of the South Manchuria Railway it is said that coal is freighted to Changchun free.

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   • 1979 April 8, “Wallposter in Kirin”, in Free China Weekly‎, volume XX, number 13, Taipei, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 3:

     A “big-character” wall appearing in Changchun, Kirin Province, on Feb. 2, denounced the Chinese Communist regime’s crackdown on dissidents clamoring for human rights, an intelligence report from the Chinese mainland said April 3.
     The wall poster accused the Peiping regime [of] "practicing Fascist totalitarianism," the report said, adding that some 40 people in Changchun had been arrested for putting up wall posters.

     Category:English terms with quotations#CHANGCHUN

   • 2019 January 25, Austin Ramzy, “Explosions Shake Shopping District in Changchun, China”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 26 January 2019, Asia Pacific‎:

     At least one person was killed and another was injured in a series of explosions Friday afternoon in the northeastern Chinese city of Changchun, the local authorities said.
     The police are tentatively treating the explosions as “a criminal case,” the propaganda office of the Changchun Municipal Communist Party Committee said in a statement posted online.

     Category:English terms with quotations#CHANGCHUN

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Changchun.

References

Further reading

• “Changchun”, in Collins English Dictionary, 2011–present.
• “Changchun, pn.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “Changchun”, in Merriam-Webster.com Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• “Changchun”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• Saul B. Cohen, editor (2008), “Changchun”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎, 2nd edition, volume 1, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 724, column 3

Proper noun

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1. Changchun (a prefecture-level city and subprovincial city, the provincial capital of Jilin, in northeastern China)Category:es:Changchun#CHANGCHUNCategory:es:Changchun#CHANGCHUNCategory:es:Prefecture-level cities of Jilin, China#CHANGCHUNCategory:es:Prefecture-level cities of Jilin, China#CHANGCHUNCategory:es:Cities in Jilin, China#CHANGCHUNCategory:es:Cities in China#CHANGCHUNCategory:es:Provincial capitals of China#CHANGCHUNCategory:es:Places in Jilin, China#CHANGCHUNCategory:es:Places in China#CHANGCHUN