Chengchow
[Chinese juhng-joh] /Chinese ˈdʒʌŋˈdʒoʊ/
noun, Older Spelling.
1.
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/ˈtʃɛŋˈtʃaʊ/
noun
1.
a variant transliteration of the Chinese name for Zhengzhou
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