Changshu

See also: chángshù

English

Alternative forms

• Ch'ang-shu (Wade–Giles)
• Changhsu (misspelling)

Etymology

From Mandarin 常熟 (Chángshú).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /(ˈ)t͡ʃæŋˈʃu/, /t͡ʃɑŋ-/

Proper noun

Changshu

1. A county-level city in Suzhou, Jiangxi, China.
   • 1923 January 13, “Medical News”, in Journal of the American Medical Association‎^[1], volume 80, number 2, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 119:

     The American Church Mission Hospital at Changshu was formally opened in September.

   • [1991, Christine P. W. Wong, “Central Planning and Local Participation Under Mao: the Development of Country-Run Fertiliser Plants”, in Gordon White, editor, The Chinese State in the Era of Economic Reform: The Road to Crisis‎^[2], M. E. Sharpe, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 30, 31:

     For example, one report told of how the Changshou County Chemical Fertiliser Plant (in Jiangsu province) was financed.[...]Anecdotal reports such as the one from Changshou County implied that much of the investment funding for small fertiliser plants was raised locally, outside of the state sector.]

   • 2013 September 18, Norihiko Shirouzu, Kazunori Takada, “Japanese Carmakers Struggle With History in China”, in The New York Times‎^[3], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on February 06, 2016, Global Business‎^[4]:

     He noted the opening of a Toyota China branch this year in Nanjing, Jiangsu’s capital and the site of a massacre under Japanese occupation in 1937. Toyota has also opened a technical center in Changshu, east of Nanjing.

   • 2019 February 12, “Velodyne Lidar’s Sponsorship of Autonomous Vehicle Competition in China Advances Research and Development of Self-Driving Cars”, in AP News, Business Wire‎^[5], archived from the original on 02 April 2023‎^[6]:

     The IVFC, which took place in Changshu, Suzhou, China in November 2018, attracted a diverse group of teams looking to showcase their latest developments in AV technology. In addition to teams from university research institutes, innovative startup companies and vehicle manufacturers engaged in developing driverless cars participated in the competition. The challenge was hosted by the National Natural Science Foundation of China and organized by the Changshu Municipal People’s Government.

Translations

county-level city in Jiangsu

• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 常熟 (soeng⁴ suk⁶)

  Mandarin: 常熟 (zh) (Chángshú)

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (2008), “Changshu”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[7], 2nd edition, volume 1, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 726, column 2

Anagrams

• Hsü-ch'ang