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{{also|wúcháng|Wǔchāng|Wu-chang|Wu-ch'ang}}
==English==
{{wikipedia}}
{{commonscat|Wuchang District}}

===Alternative forms===
* {{l|en|Ou-tchang}}, {{l|en|Voutchang}}
* {{alt|en|Wu-ch'ang|Wu-chang||Wade-Giles}}

===Etymology===
From {{bor|en|cmn|-}} {{zh-l|武昌}}.

===Pronunciation===
* {{enPR|wo͞oʹchängʹ}}<ref name="seltzer">{{cite-book|en|year=1952|chapter=Wuchang or Wu-ch’ang|editor=Leon E. Seltzer|title=The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World|url=https://archive.org/details/columbialippinco00selt/|location=Morningside Heights, NY|publisher={{w|Columbia University Press}}|oclc=802473294|page=2107|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/columbialippinco00selt/page/2107/|column=3}}</ref>

===Proper noun===
{{head|en|proper noun}}

# {{place|en|district|sub-provincial city/Wuhan|p/Hubei|c/China}}.
#* {{quote-book
|en
|year=1671
|author=[[w:Arnoldus Montanus|Arnoldus Montanus]]
|translator=w:John Ogilby
|title=Atlas Chinensis
|url=https://archive.org/details/bim_early-english-books-1641-1700_atlas-chinensis-being-a_dapper-olfert_1671/
|origlang=nl
|location=London
|publisher=Tho. Johnson
|OCLC=11283434
|page=517
|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/bim_early-english-books-1641-1700_atlas-chinensis-being-a_dapper-olfert_1671/page/517/
|text=The Metropolis '''''Vuchang''''', lieth on the Southern Shore of the River ''Kiang'', though ſomewhat diſtant, but may be gone to in Boats along Channels, convey'd thither out of the River.
|brackets=on}}
#* {{quote-journal
|1=en
|url=https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1853/06/14.htm
|date=June 14, 1853
|title=Revolution in China and in Europe
|author=w:Karl Marx
|journal=New-York Daily Tribune
|page=[https://archive.org/details/oncolonialism00marxuoft/page/17/ 17]
|accessdate=30 December 2020
|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20201101055323/https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1853/06/14.htm
|archivedate=1 November 2020

|passage=The tribute to be paid to England after the unfortunate war of 1840, the great unproductive consumption of opium, the drain of the precious metals by this trade, the destructive influence of foreign competition on native manufactures, the demoralized condition of the public administration, produced two things: the old taxation became more burdensome and harassing, and new taxation was added to the old. Thus in a decree of the Emperor, dated Peking, Jan 5 1853, we find orders given to the viceroys and governors of the southern provinces of '''Wuchang''' and Hanyang to remit and defer the payment of taxes, and especially not in any case to exact more than the regular amount; for otherwise, says the decree, “how will the poor people be able to bear it?” And “Thus, perhaps,” continues the Emperor, “will my people, in a period of general hardship and distress, be exempted from the evils of being pursued and worried by the tax-gatherer.” Such language as this, and such concessions we remember to have heard from Austria, the China of Germany, in 1848.}}
#* {{quote-book
|en
|url=https://archive.org/details/strongmanofchina0000berk
|year=1938
|title=Strong Man of China: The Story of Chiang Kai-shek
|author=Robert Berkov
|publisher=Houghton Mifflin Company
|location=Boston
|page=[https://archive.org/details/strongmanofchina0000berk/page/54/mode/ 55]
|passage=Yochow fell to the Nationalists August 22. Alarmed, Wu hastened from North China. Before he arrived at Hankow, however, the Nationalists had penetrated the province and were advancing on '''Wuchang''', sister-city of Hankow.}}
#* {{quote-journal
|en
|date=July 1, 1973
|title=Discipline lax in Red army
|journal=Free China Weekly
|url=https://archive.org/details/sim_free-china-weekly_1973-07-01_14_25/
|volume=XIV
|issue=25
|location=[[Taipei]]
|issn=0016-0318
|oclc=1786626
|page=3
|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/sim_free-china-weekly_1973-07-01_14_25/page/n2/
|column=2
|text=Eleven soldiers were poisoned to death at '''Wuchang''' in Hupeh province last February 18. Two cooks were arrested on charges of deliberately poisoning the food.}}
#* {{quote-book
|en
|url=https://archive.org/details/noforeignbonesin00stur/
|year=2002
|title=No Foreign Bones in China
|author=w:Peter Stursberg
|ISBN=0-88864-387-X
|publisher=w:University of Alberta Press
|page=[https://archive.org/details/noforeignbonesin00stur/page/92 92]
|passage=By 1911, there were rumours of revolution, and Stursberg was worried by reports that Foochow was in the hands of revolutionaries. A mutiny of the troops in '''Wuchang''' on October 10 had spread to city after city.}}
#* {{quote-journal
|en
|date=July 21, 2021
|author=Ralph Litzinger; Yanping Ni
|title=Inside the Wuhan cabin hospital: Contending narratives during the COVID-19 pandemic
|journal=w:China Information
|url=https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0920203X211030869
|doi=10.1177/0920203X211030869
|volume=35
|issue=3
|page=347
|passage=The Wuchang mobile cabin hospital, built in the Hongshan Stadium in Wuhan’s '''Wuchang''' District, was completed within 29 hours; the state media championed this as a sign of ‘Chinese speed’ or the ‘Chinese experience’.}}
#* {{quote-journal
|en
|date=November 18, 2021
|author=w:Carl Zimmer; Benjamin Mueller; Chris Buckley
|title=First Known Covid Case Was Vendor at Wuhan Market, Scientist Claims
|journal=w:The New York Times
|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20211118190836/https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/18/health/covid-wuhan-market-lab-leak.html
|issn=0362-4331
|oclc=1645522
|section=The Coronavirus Pandemic
|url2=https://archive.fo/BWGwU
|text=The video indicates that Mr. Chen is a 41-year-old who worked in a company’s finance office and never went to the Huanan market. Official reports said that he lived in the '''Wuchang''' district in Wuhan, miles from the market.}}
#* {{seemoreCites|en}}
# {{former name of|en|Ezhou|nodot=1}}, a city in eastern [[Hubei]] in [[China]].

====Translations====
{{trans-top|district in central China}}
* Chinese:
*: Mandarin: {{t+|cmn|武昌|tr=Wǔchāng}}
* Japanese: {{t|ja|武昌|tr=ぶしょう, Bushō}}
* Manchu: {{t|mnc|ᡠ ᠴᠠᠩ}}
{{trans-bottom}}

===References===
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===Further reading===
* {{cite-book|en|year=1998|chapter=Wuchang|editor={{w|Saul B. Cohen}}|title=The Columbia Gazetteer of the World|url=https://archive.org/details/columbiagazettee03cohe/|volume=3|location=New York|publisher={{w|Columbia University Press}}|ISBN=0-231-11040-5|lccn=98-071262|oclc=164337564|page=3493|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/columbiagazettee03cohe/page/3493/|column=3}}
* {{R:GNV|Wuchang, Wu-ch'ang, Wu-chang}}

===Anagrams===
* {{anagrams|en|a=acghnuw|Changwu}}