Zhangziとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 長子／长子 (Zhǎngzǐ).

発音

• IPA: /d͡ʒɑŋˈd͡ʒiː/, enPR: jängʹdzûʹ

固有名詞

Zhangzi

1. A county of Changzhi, Shanxi, China.
   • [1983, William Hinton, “A Zigzag Road”, in Shenfan‎, New York: Vintage Books, published 1984, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 361, 362:

     Commander Li further charged that the son of the biggest landlord in Licheng County had headed the 7,000-man work team in Changtzu.[...]Be that as it may, Li spread the thesis that, as soon as Liu Shao-ch'i issued his abysmal ten points, the "agents" in the Region gathered together 7,000 cadres and sent them to Changtzu County to carry out a line "left in form, right in essence."]

   • [1985, Yuen Chen, Perspectives on Development in Mainland China‎, Westview Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 164:

     There was a warm response to Chao's directive on the establishment of a personal responsibility system in government organizations. However, each government organization goes its own way in implementing the system, as can be seen from the following extract from a People's Daily report on the situation in Changtzu County, Shansi:
     Beginning from the end of 1980, each unit in the Changtzu County, Shansi, implemented the personal responsibility system and the floating wage system.]

   • 1996, The Dictionary of Art‎, volume 6, Macmillan, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 717:

     The Chongqing Temple in Zhangzi County, Shanxi Province, holds a set of late 11th-century clay sculptures of high quality.

   • 2000, Sources of Chinese Tradition‎, 2nd edition, volume II, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 76:

     A PROCESSION ON THE BIRTHDAY OF THE SANZONG GOD
     This is a description of an unusually elaborate procession that was performed as recently as the late 1930s. It was centered on the Sanzong Temple in the Big West Gate quarter of the county capital of Zhangzi, in the southeastern Shanxi province. The account was written by a native of Zhangzi County who spent many years collecting information from local residents about their temple festivals.

   • 2003, Andrew H. Wedeman, “Import Protectionism”, in From Mao to Market: Rent Seeking, Local Protectionism, and Marketization in China‎, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 167:

     In Shanxi, the county procurator of Zhangzi County and local banking officials repeatedly blocked the transfer of funds to a Shandong-based enterprise after courts in Shandong ruled against the Shanxi-based defendant.

   • 2021 July 28, “Time-lapse video shows how dragon fruit blossoms in N China”, in CGTN‎, archived from the original on August 2, 2021:

     More than 5,300 square meters of dragon fruit have entered the bloom season in Xihan Village in Zhangzi County, northern China's Shanxi Province.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Zhangzi.

同意語

• Changzi, Ch'ang-tzu, Changtzu

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Zhangzi”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎, volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 3562, column 1