Hangzhou

American  

[hahng-joh] / ˈhɑŋˈdʒoʊ /

(Older Spelling) Hangchow

noun

Pinyin.

1. a seaport in and the capital of Zhejiang province, in eastern China, on Hangzhou Bay.

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Hangzhou British  

/ ˈhæŋˈdʒəʊ /

noun

1. a port in E China, capital of Zhejiang province, on Hangzhou Bay (an inlet of the East China Sea), at the foot of the Eye of Heaven Mountains: regarded by Marco Polo as the finest city in the world; seat of two universities (1927, 1959). Pop: 1 955 000 (2005 est)

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Hangzhou

Better known as Faker, he was part of the South Korea team that won gold in League of Legends at the 2023 Asian Games in China's Hangzhou.

From Barron's ● Aug. 27, 2026

They are in the Hangzhou Technician Institute, one of several huge, purpose-built vocational schools that want to churn out the next generation of tech-savvy engineers.

From BBC ● Aug. 24, 2026

That company, Hangzhou Qiandaohu Xunlong Sci-tech, raised more than $150 million in a Hong Kong public offering in June, and it sells most of its caviar outside China.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 13, 2026

Nationwide there are now multiple all-women repair groups, including the organisers of the Hangzhou workshop, Mulan Build.

From Barron's ● Jul. 8, 2026

On February 6, 2006—a year and a week after he’d crossed the frozen Tumen River into China—Shin arrived in Hangzhou, a city of about six million in the Yangtze River Delta.

From "Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West" by Blaine Harden