Alternative forms

• Ch'ang-chi (Wade–Giles)

Etymology

From the Hanyu PinyinCategory:English terms borrowed from Hanyu Pinyin#CHANGJICategory:English terms derived from Hanyu Pinyin#CHANGJI romanization of the MandarinCategory:English terms borrowed from Mandarin#CHANGJICategory:English terms derived from Mandarin#CHANGJI 昌吉 (Chāngjí).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t͡ʃæŋˈd͡ʒiː/, /t͡ʃɑːŋˈd͡ʒiː/Category:English 2-syllable words#CHANGJICategory:English 2-syllable words#CHANGJICategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#CHANGJI
• enPR: chängʹjēʹ^[1]
• Hyphenation: Chang‧ji

Proper noun

ChangjiCategory:English lemmas#CHANGJICategory:English proper nouns#CHANGJICategory:English uncountable nouns#CHANGJICategory:English entries with incorrect language header#CHANGJICategory:Pages with entries#CHANGJICategory:Pages with 1 entry#CHANGJI

1. A Hui autonomous prefecture in northern Xinjiang autonomous region, ChinaCategory:en:Places in Xinjiang, China#CHANGJICategory:en:Places in China#CHANGJI.
   • [1978 July 11 [1978 July 8], Wang Feng, “Leading Cadres Must Accept Criticism and Supervision From the Masses”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China‎, volume I, number 133, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Urumchi Sinkiang Regional Service, translation of original in Mandarin, →ISSN, →OCLC, National Affairs, page E 15:

     During my inspection of counties in Changchi Prefecture last September, I came to realize that the irrigation of the Sinkiang farmland depended mainly on the melted snow of the Tienshan Mountains.]

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   • 1998, Linda Benson, Ingvar Svanberg, China's Last Nomads‎, M. E. Sharpe, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 165:

     As elsewhere in Xinjiang, the number of Han Chinese throughout the Changji prefecture increased in the late 1950s. Towns and villages all along the main east-west road experienced considerable growth.

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   • 2021 January 8, Ana Swanson, Christopher Buckley, “Chinese Solar Companies Tied to Use of Forced Labor”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 08 January 2021‎:

     On its public WeChat account, East Hope Group said that it had “responded to the national Western Development Call and actively participated in the development and construction of Xinjiang,” including constructing a polysilicon project in Changji prefecture in 2016, the Horizon report said.

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   • 2021 May 13, Cate Cadell, “Mosques disappear as China strives to 'build a beautiful Xinjiang'”, in Reuters‎, archived from the original on 13 May 2021, China‎:

     In Changji, about 40 km west of the regional capital, Urumqi, green and red minarets of the city's Xinqu Mosque lay broken below a Chinese flag flying over the deserted building's courtyard.
     Reuters analysed satellite imagery of 10 mosques in Changji city and visited six of them.
     A total of 31 minarets and 12 green or gold domes had been removed within a period of two months after April 2018, according to dated images.
     At several mosques, Islamic architecture was replaced with Chinese-style roofing. These included Changji's Tianchi road mosque, whose gold dome and minarets were removed in 2018, according to publicly available satellite images.

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2. A county-level city of Changji, in northern Xinjiang autonomous region, ChinaCategory:en:Counties and county-level cities of Xinjiang, China#CHANGJICategory:en:Places in Xinjiang, China#CHANGJICategory:en:Places in China#CHANGJI.

References

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (2008), “Changji”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎, 2nd edition, volume 1, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 725, column 1