Chengdu

[chœng-dy]

Cheng·du

[chœng-dy]
noun Pinyin.
a city in and the capital of Sichuan province, in central China. 1,250,000.
Also, Older Spelling, Cheng·tu.

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a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
the offspring of a zebra and a donkey.
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Si·chuan

[sich-wahn, sich-oo-ahn; Chin. sœ-chwahn]
noun Pinyin.
a province in S central China. 67,960,000; 219,691 sq. mi. (569,000 sq. km). Capital: Chengdu.
Also, Szechwan, Szechuan.
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Chengdu, Chengtu or Ch'eng-tu (ˈtʃɛŋˈtuː)
 
n
a city in S central China, capital of Sichuan province. Pop: 3 478 000 (2005 est)
 
Chengtu, Chengtu or Ch'eng-tu
 
n
 
Ch'eng-tu, Chengtu or Ch'eng-tu
 
n

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