chengguan
noun
chengguan is a noun meaning “An officer of a City Urban Administrative and Law Enforcement Bureau in China” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled C-H-E-N-G-G-U-A-N, and it appears about once in every 22 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of chengguan is chengguans.
What does chengguan mean?
noun
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An officer of a City Urban Administrative and Law Enforcement Bureau in China.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of chengguan
- chengguans plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is chengguan?
Chengguan appears about once in every 22 million words in written English, the 141,699th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does chengguan come from?
From Mandarin 城管 (chéngguǎn), short for 城市管理部門 (chéngshì guǎnlǐ bùmén).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).