Wugong
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Etymology
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 武功 (Wǔgōng).
Proper noun
Wugong
2017 December 4, “Natural gas crunch in northern China leaves hospitals, schools out in the cold”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2017-12-04, Policies & Politics:
- According to a report last week by Huashang Daily, several schools in rural Shaanxi province are struggling to keep their pupils warm after their coal-fired heaters were dismantled during the anti-smog campaign.
A primary school in Wugong county had neither a gas supply nor an electricity connection powerful enough to run the heaters on its air conditioning units, it said.
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Further reading
- Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Wugong”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World, volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 3494, column 2
- Wugong, Wu-kung, Wukung at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.