wu changとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From the Wade–Giles romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 武昌 (Wu³-chʻang¹).^[1]

発音

• enPR: wo͞oʹchängʹ

固有名詞

Wu-ch'ang

1. Alternative form of Wuchang
   • 1903, Frederick Howard Taylor, These Forty Years: A Short History of the China Inland Mission‎^[1], Pepper Publishing Company, →OCLC, page 182:

     Mr. and Mrs. Judd went forward to Wu-ch'ang, the capital of Hu-peh, and there established what they trusted would become the basis for the new western work of the China Inland Mission.Not long after, another sum of three thousand pounds was given for work in western China by donors who wished their names withheld.
     As is well known, Wu-ch'ang is the chief governing city of central China, and is situated at the head of the more navigable lower Yang-tse, just opposite Han-kow, that great commercial metropolis to and from which large ocean-going steamers carry merchandise. In these two cities and the adjacent Han-yang, three cities in one, there is a total population of not less than two millions.
     Wu-ch'ang is not merely the capital of Hu-peh and residence of the governor, but also the seat of the viceroy of Hu-peh and Hu-nan.

   • 1932, “HUNG HSIU-CHʻÜAN”, in The Encyclopedia Americana‎^[2], volume H, Americana Corporation, →OCLC, page 499, column 1:

     He then adopted the term "Heavenly Dynasty of Perfect Peace" (Taiping Kwoh), styling himself the Heavenly King; and working his way northward in 1853, he captured Wu-chʻang and all the other cities on the Yang-tsze down to An-chʻing, […]

   • 1971, Deborah S. Davis, “The Cultural Revolution in Wuhan”, in The Cultural Revolution in the Provinces‎^[3], Harvard University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 160:

     In late September, the Chan Kuang-chou (Fighting Canton) publication reported that the Million Heroes were still in business, had set up a liaison center in outlying areas of Wuhan, and were holding secret meetings in worker’s dormitories at the Wu-ch’ang shipyard.⁵¹ Obviously the rebel forces had not been subdued.

   • 2003, C.J. Shane, editor, China (The History of Nations)‎^[4], Greenhaven Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 67:

     This army recaptured Wu-chʻang, on the right bank of the Yangtze, in 1854, reached Chen-chiang four years later, advanced to Chiu-chiang and threatened Nanking.

参照

Further reading

• “Wu-ch'ang”, in Collins English Dictionary.
• “Wu-ch'ang” in TheFreeDictionary.com, Huntingdon Valley, Pa.: Farlex, Inc., 2003–2023.

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• Changwu

別の表記

• Ou-tchang, Voutchang
• (from Wade–Giles) Wu-ch'ang, Wu-chang

語源

From Mandarin 武昌 (Wǔchāng).

発音

• enPR: wo͞oʹchängʹ

固有名詞

Wuchang

1. A district of Wuhan, Hubei, China.
   • 1853 June 14, Karl Marx, “Revolution in China and in Europe”, in New-York Daily Tribune‎^[1], archived from the original on 1 November 2020, page 17:

     The tribute to be paid to England after the unfortunate war of 1840, the great unproductive consumption of opium, the drain of the precious metals by this trade, the destructive influence of foreign competition on native manufactures, the demoralized condition of the public administration, produced two things: the old taxation became more burdensome and harassing, and new taxation was added to the old. Thus in a decree of the Emperor, dated Peking, Jan 5 1853, we find orders given to the viceroys and governors of the southern provinces of Wuchang and Hanyang to remit and defer the payment of taxes, and especially not in any case to exact more than the regular amount; for otherwise, says the decree, “how will the poor people be able to bear it?” And “Thus, perhaps,” continues the Emperor, “will my people, in a period of general hardship and distress, be exempted from the evils of being pursued and worried by the tax-gatherer.” Such language as this, and such concessions we remember to have heard from Austria, the China of Germany, in 1848.

   • 1938, Robert Berkov, Strong Man of China: The Story of Chiang Kai-shek‎^[2], Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, page 55:

     Yochow fell to the Nationalists August 22. Alarmed, Wu hastened from North China. Before he arrived at Hankow, however, the Nationalists had penetrated the province and were advancing on Wuchang, sister-city of Hankow.

   • 1973 July 1, “Discipline lax in Red army”, in Free China Weekly‎^[3], volume XIV, number 25, Taipei, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 3, column 2:

     Eleven soldiers were poisoned to death at Wuchang in Hupeh province last February 18. Two cooks were arrested on charges of deliberately poisoning the food.

   • 2002, Peter Stursberg, No Foreign Bones in China‎^[4], University of Alberta Press, →ISBN, page 92:

     By 1911, there were rumours of revolution, and Stursberg was worried by reports that Foochow was in the hands of revolutionaries. A mutiny of the troops in Wuchang on October 10 had spread to city after city.

   • 2021 July 21, Litzinger, Ralph; Yanping Ni, “Inside the Wuhan cabin hospital: Contending narratives during the COVID-19 pandemic”, in China Information‎^[5], volume 35, number 3, →DOI, page 347:

     The Wuchang mobile cabin hospital, built in the Hongshan Stadium in Wuhan’s Wuchang District, was completed within 29 hours; the state media championed this as a sign of ‘Chinese speed’ or the ‘Chinese experience’.

   • 2021 November 18, Zimmer, Carl; Benjamin Mueller; Chris Buckley, “First Known Covid Case Was Vendor at Wuhan Market, Scientist Claims”, in The New York Times‎^[6], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2021-11-18, The Coronavirus Pandemic‎^[7]:

     The video indicates that Mr. Chen is a 41-year-old who worked in a company’s finance office and never went to the Huanan market. Official reports said that he lived in the Wuchang district in Wuhan, miles from the market.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Wuchang.
2. Former name of Ezhou, a city in eastern Hubei in China.

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Wuchang”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[8], volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 3493, column 3
• Wuchang, Wu-ch'ang, Wu-chang at Google Ngram Viewer

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• Changwu