# Chungking

> English word · Proper noun · frequency rank #89,231

## Definitions
1. Dated form of Chongqing.

## Etymology
From the Postal Romanization of the Nanking court dialect Mandarin 重慶 /重庆 (Chóngqìng), from before the modern palatalization of [kʰ] to [t͡ɕʰ].

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/chungking