常熟

Chángshú
proper noun

Meanings

  1. 1 Changshu, county-level city under Suzhou in southern Jiangsu

Examples

HSK 2
Chángshú lí Sūzhōu hěn jìn.
Changshu is very close to Suzhou.
HSK 7-9
Chángshú de fúzhuāng pīfā shìchǎng zài quánguó dōu hěn yǒumíng.
Changshu's clothing wholesale markets are known all over China.

Tips

memory
The name means "always ripe": the land was so fertile, and so safe from flood and drought, that the harvest never failed. Here 熟 takes its formal reading, shú, not the everyday shóu.
culture
The city sits at the foot of 虞山, and the reed marshes of 沙家浜, setting of the model opera of that name, lie inside it.

Stroke Order

常 cháng
熟 shú