chungking

Questions about chungking

What does chungking mean?

chungking means "a city in south-central China on the Chang Jiang; a commercial center for western China".

How many syllables are in chungking?

chungking has 2 syllables and divides as chung-king under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for chungking?

Close synonyms include Chongqing. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is chungking a common word?

chungking is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.