Chongming

• (obsolete) Ch'ung-ming, Tsungming

The atonal Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin pronunciation of Chinese 崇明 (Chóngmíng, literally “Lofty & Bright”), initially given as the name of a town on the island in 705.

• IPA^(key): /t͡ʃʊŋˈmɪŋ/, /t͡ʃɒŋˈmɪŋ/

Chongming

1. (historical) A former town in Jiangsu, China.
2. An island at the mouth of the Yangtze River in eastern China.
   • 2021 November 17, “China's millennial 'new farmers' opt to live off the land”, in France 24‎, archived from the original on 17 November 2021:

     Empty inside
     Hu, who has worked in marketing and supply chains for French companies like personal-care giant L'Oreal and sports retailer Decathlon, said that in her career she "appeared happy on the outside, but felt empty inside."
     She now sows organic, pesticide- and fertiliser-free sweet potatoes, long beans and other crops on rented plots of land with like-minded friends on Chongming, a large, primarily agricultural island on Shanghai's outskirts. […]
     Liang, who moved to Chongming three years ago, has had to rapidly learn horticulture -- his farmer neighbours and internet websites help -- while dabbling in side work online for extra income.

3. A district of Shanghai, China, consisting of Chongming Island as well as Changxing, Hengsha, and other smaller islands in the Yangtze.

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (2008), “Chongming”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎, volume 1, 2nd edition, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, LCCN 2008009181, OCLC 212893637, page 791, column 3