Wugong

See also: wúgōng, wǔgōng, and wùgōng

English

Alternative forms

• Wu-kung (Wade–Giles)

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 武功 (Wǔgōng).

Proper noun

Wugong

1. A county of Xianyang, Shaanxi, China.
   • [1978 August 2 [1978 August 1], “Shensi Selected as Site for Agricultural Research Center”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China, volume I, number 149, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Peking NCNA, →ISSN, →OCLC, page M 1:

     The heart of the centre is in Yangling town in Wukung County, 80 kilometres from Sian, the provincial capital.]

   • 2017 December 4, “Natural gas crunch in northern China leaves hospitals, schools out in the cold”, in South China Morning Post‎^[1], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2017-12-04, Policies & Politics‎^[2]:

     According to a report last week by Huashang Daily, several schools in rural Shaanxi province are struggling to keep their pupils warm after their coal-fired heaters were dismantled during the anti-smog campaign.
     A primary school in Wugong county had neither a gas supply nor an electricity connection powerful enough to run the heaters on its air conditioning units, it said.

Translations

county

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 武功 (zh) (Wǔgōng)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Wugong”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[3], volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 3494, column 2
• Wugong, Wu-kung, Wukung at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.