城中村

chéngzhōngcūn
noun

Measure Word

Meanings

  1. 1 urban village (traditional village surrounded and swallowed by city expansion)
  2. 2 informal high-density neighborhood inside a Chinese city

Examples

Shēnzhèn de chéngzhōngcūn shì hěn duō dǎgōng rén de dì yī zhàn.
Shenzhen's urban villages are the first stop for many migrant workers.
Zhèngfǔ qǐdòngle dà guīmó de chéngzhōngcūn gǎizào xiàngmù.
The government has launched a large-scale urban village redevelopment project.

Tips

culture
Villages whose land was swallowed by urban growth but whose buildings and collective land ownership persist — cheap housing, narrow 'handshake buildings' (握手), vital for migrant workers. Especially prominent in Shenzhen and Guangzhou.

Stroke Order

chéng
zhōng
cūn