Chungking
chung·king
noun
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a city in south-central China on the Chang Jiang; a commercial center for western China
Origin
From the Jesuit romanization of the Nanking court dialect Mandarin 重慶 /重庆 (Chóngqìng), from before the modern palatalization of [kʰ] to [t͡ɕʰ], reinforced by Postal Romanization.
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