Tzukuei
See also: Tzu-kuei
English
Etymology
From Mandarin 秭歸／秭归 (Zǐguī) Wade–Giles romanization: Tzŭ³-kuei¹.
Proper noun
Tzukuei
- Alternative form of Zigui
- 1977, “The Three Gorges”, in China Pictorial, number 9, ISSN 0009-4420, OCLC 671845184, page 36, column 1:
- The 76-km-long Hsiling Gorge, from Hsianghsi in Tzukuei County to Nantsinkuan, was noted for its treacherous shoals.
- 2016, Red Pine, Finding Them Gone: Visiting China's Poets of the Past, Copper Canyon Press, →ISBN, OCLC 951021395, page :
- Twenty minutes later, I arrived in Tzukuei.
It should have been called New Tzukuei. The original Tzukuei was underwater thirty kilometers upstream on the other side of the river.
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Translations
Zigui — see Zigui