Zhongyuan

English

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 中原 (Zhōngyuán).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈd͡ʒɔŋ.juˌɑn/, enPR: jo͝ongʹyüǎnʹ

Proper noun

Zhongyuan

1. A district of Zhengzhou, Henan, China.
   • 1990 April 25 [1990 April 20], “Henan's Hou Zongbin Inspects Police Substation”, in Daily Report: China, number 080, sourced from Zhengzhou Henan Provincial Service, translation of original in Mandarin, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 59, column 1:

     On the night of 19 April, Hou Zongbin, secretary of the Henan Provincial CPC Committee, Zhang Zhigang. member of the Henan Provincial CPC Committee, and leaders of the Henan Provincial Public Security Department and Zhengzhou City went to Zhongyuan District Public Security Bureau, Ludong Village Police Substation, Zhengzhou Railroad Public Security Bureau, Erqi District Public Security Bureau, Dehua Street Police Substation, and some other police substations in Zhengzhou City to inspect work and see police officers and policemen on duty there.

   • 2012, Zhenbao Jin, “From a Supplementary Legislator to a Legitimate Judicial Lawmaker—On the Role of the Supreme People's Court in Developing the Law in Mainland China”, in Lei Chen, C.H. (Remco) van Rhee, editors, Towards a Chinese Civil Code: Comparative and Historical Perspectives‎^[1], Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, →ISBN, →ISSN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 48:

     As early as 2002, the People's Court of Zhongyuan District in Zhengzhou, He'nan^{[sic – meaning Henan]} Province, a court at the basic level, issued Several Provisions on the Application of the Precedent Decisions Mechanism (Guanyu Shixing Xianli Panjue Zhidu de Ruogan Guiding), under which the adjudication committee of the court selected and issued precedent decisions.

   • 2022 October 27, Chang Che, Amy Chang Chien, “China’s Latest Covid Lockdown Affects a Major iPhone Factory”, in The New York Times‎^[2], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-10-27, The Coronavirus Pandemic‎^[3]:

     The lockdown in Zhengzhou began early last week when people in more than a dozen neighborhoods in the central Zhongyuan district, west of the Foxconn factory, were told to stay at home, according to an official notice.

Translations

district

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 中原 (zh) (Zhōngyuán)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can

See also

• Central Plain

Further reading

• Zhongyuan at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.