Zhouzhi
See also: zhōuzhī and Zhōuzhì
English
Etymology 1
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 周至 (Zhōuzhì).
Proper noun
Zhouzhi
- A county of Xi'an, Shaanxi, China.
- [1976, Kuo, Leslie T. C., Agriculture in the People's Republic of China: Structural Changes and Technical Transformation, Praeger Publishers, →ISBN, LCCN 75-36412, OCLC 883392104, page 50:
- Although data on state farms in recent years are sketchy, their general situation and problems appear to be essentially the same as they were in the 1950s and the 1960s. At a provincewide symposium of state-owned agricultural and animal husbandry enterprises, convened in Chouchih, Shensi Province, in May 1975, the participants were told that although the proportion of the enterprises in the entire rural economy was "still not great," they occupied an important position in China's socialist agriculture.]
- 1991 [1987], Zou Zongxu, Susan Whitfield, transl., The Land Within the Passes: A History of Xian, Viking, →ISBN, LCCN 88-51496, OCLC 428519978, OL 7642783M, page 15:
- The Lao River lies to the south-west of Xian within Zhouzhi and Huxian Counties.
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Translations
county
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Etymology 2
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 盩厔 (Zhōuzhì).
Alternative forms
- (from Wade–Giles) Chou-chih
Proper noun
Zhouzhi
- A former name for a county of Xi'an, Shaanxi, China.
- 2010, Tian Yuan Tan, Songs of Contentment and Transgression: Discharged Officials and Literati Communities in Sixteenth-Century North China, →ISBN, LCCN 2010008605, OCLC 699883633, page 105:
- This song explains that the fine climate of Zhouzhi produced admirable figures like Lanqing and Zhang Fu'ao.
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Translations
former name
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