Chongming

See also: Chóngmíng

English

Chongming District in Shanghai

Alternative forms

• (obsolete) Chungming, Ch'ung-ming, Tsungming

Etymology

The atonal Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 崇明 (Chóngmíng, literally “Lofty & Bright”), initially given as the name of a town on the island in 705.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t͡ʃʊŋˈmɪŋ/, /t͡ʃɒŋˈmɪŋ/

Proper noun

Chongming

1. (historical) A former town in Jiangsu, China.
2. An island at the mouth of the Yangtze River in eastern China.
   • 2021 November 17, “China's millennial 'new farmers' opt to live off the land”, in France 24‎^[1], archived from the original on 17 November 2021:

     Empty inside
     Hu, who has worked in marketing and supply chains for French companies like personal-care giant L'Oreal and sports retailer Decathlon, said that in her career she "appeared happy on the outside, but felt empty inside."
     She now sows organic, pesticide- and fertiliser-free sweet potatoes, long beans and other crops on rented plots of land with like-minded friends on Chongming, a large, primarily agricultural island on Shanghai's outskirts. […]
     Liang, who moved to Chongming three years ago, has had to rapidly learn horticulture -- his farmer neighbours and internet websites help -- while dabbling in side work online for extra income.

3. A district of Shanghai, China, consisting of Chongming Island as well as Changxing, Hengsha, and other smaller islands in the Yangtze.
   • 2022 April 21, Brenda Goh, Ella Cao, Marius Zaharia, “Shanghai people 'not free to fly' out of homes as COVID cases tick back up”, in Simon Cameron-Moore, editor, Reuters‎^[2], archived from the original on 01 April 2023‎^[3]:

     At a regular press conference, an official from the Chongming district, an outlying island area, said most curbs would be kept in place, although it has reported zero cases outside quarantined areas and 90% of its 640,000-or-so residents were now in theory allowed to leave their homes.

Translations

island and district in Shanghai, China

• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 崇明 (sung⁴ ming⁴)

  Mandarin: 崇明 (zh) (Chóngmíng)

• Marathi: छुंगमिंग (chuṅgmiṅga)

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (2008), “Chongming”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[4], 2nd edition, volume 1, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 791, column 3