Hangzhou

(Older Spelling) Hang·chow

[hahng-joh]

noun

Pinyin.

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

Hangzhou

/ 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)

Example Sentences

In Hangzhou, once the capital of Song China, Marco Polo observed markets linked by canals and warehouses that “supply them with every article that could be desired.”

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Another video featured an elementary school student in Hangzhou vowing to study hard to build China into an even stronger country.

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On Tuesday, Australia beat China 2-0 in Hangzhou - cementing them at the bottom of their World Cup qualifying group.

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The government's AI strategy released earlier this month might already have been overtaken by events in Hangzhou at DeepSeek.

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The obscure Hangzhou hedge fund that coded a ChatGPT competitor as a side project it claims cost just $6m emerges from a concerted effort to invest in future generations of technology.

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