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Minhang en · PROPN

Pronunciation

• mĭn′häng′
• /mɪnhɑŋ/
• /mɪnhæŋ/

Etymology

From the Mandarin pronunciation of Chinese 閔行 /闵行 (Mǐnháng).

Meanings

1. A district of Shanghai, China.
   • Innovations and new construction of the last decade have brought about remarkable changes in Shanghai’s industrial outlook. A dozen industrial districts, such as Minhang, Woosung and Pengpu, which have been built up or extended, have done much to remedy the inadequacies and overconcentration of the past. 1964, Yu-ti (任育地) Jen, “The Middle and Lower Yangtze Region”, in 中国地理概述 [A Concise Geography of China], Peking: Foreign Languages Press, →OCLC, page 114:
   • A resident of the Minhang district on Shanghai’s west side who asked to be identified only by her surname, Chen, said her household of five was given government food packages on March 30 and April 4. They included chicken, eggplant, carrots, broccoli and potatoes. 2022 April 7, Joe McDonald, “Shanghai wrestles with food shortages under virus shutdown”, in AP News, archived from the original on 07 Apr 2022:
   • The sprawling district of Minhang in central Shanghai has implemented new lockdown measures to detect and control COVID-19 transmission risks, the district government said on Thursday. 2022 June 8, “Shanghai's Minhang district announces new lockdown”, in Reuters, archived from the original on 09 Jun 2022, China:
   • Unlike the crowds of poor and elderly who often braved repeated arrest to protest the evictions, the opponents of the maglev line have mostly been members of the city's new and fast-growing middle class who live along the proposed train route, in the city's Minhang district. 2007 August 8, Howard W. French, “Dream of high-speed rail may prove Shanghai politician's final nightmare”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 02 Sep 2023, Asia Pacific:
   • Between July and October of this year, 38 percent of the workshop party branch secretaries in the Min-hang District who were able to participate in physical labor were doing so. [1964 January 27 [1963 December 30], “Shanghai Factory Cadres Participate in Productive Labor”, in Translations on Communist China's Industry, Mining, Fuels and Power, number 55, United States Joint Publications Research Service, sourced from Kung-jen Jih-pao, Peiping, 30 December 1963, page 1 [工人日报], translation of original in Chinese, →OCLC, page 6:

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Translations (1)

cmn 閔行 /闵行 (District of Shanghai, China)