How do you pronounce 重庆?

Q: How do you pronounce 重庆?

重庆 is pronounced 重(chóng)庆 (chóng qìng). Here 重 means "again", read chóng: the city was named for a double celebration. Reading it zhòng treats it as the word for weight.

重(chóng)庆chóng qìng

Commonly said as: reading 重 as zhòng, as in weight

Correct readingwith the dictionary applied

虫庆

Raw machine readingno correction at all

重庆

What it is

Chongqing is a municipality in south-west China.

Why it gets said wrong

Here 重 means "again", read chóng: the city was named for a double celebration. Reading it zhòng treats it as the word for weight.

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Example sentence

I am travelling to Chongqing next week.

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