Chang-chou
See also: Ch'ang-chou
English
Map including CHANG-CHOU (ZHANGZHOU) (DMA, 1996)
Etymology
From Mandarin 漳州 (Zhāngzhōu), Wade–Giles romanization: Chang¹-chou¹.[1]
Proper noun
Chang-chou
- Alternative form of Zhangzhou
- 1981, Huang Shu-min, Agricultural Degradation Changing Community Systems in Rural Taiwan, University Press of America, →ISBN, LCCN 81-40590, OCLC 731662691, OL 8084675M, page 89:
- Now, with one or two bottles of liquor, I can order a Taipei person to kill another. Why should I care: Most of the Taipei people are Chang-chou people, and we southerners are mainly Ch'uan'chou[sic – meaning Ch'uan-chou] people."
- 2003, Tu Cheng-sheng, Paul Cooper, transl., Ilha Formosa: the Emergence of Taiwan on the World Scene in the 17th Century, OCLC 909219478, OL 24210446M, page 27:
- After Li Tan's death in 1625, Hsu Hsin-su (許心素), leader of the Chang-chou people dwelling in and around the city of Hsia-men (廈門, or Amoy), emerged as his successor.
- 2016, “The Philippines in Dong Xi Yang Kao”, in Tulay, ISSN 0116-6889 Invalid ISSN, OCLC 19544721, page 9:
- 3. Since this country was near Chang-chou (Zhang's native city), the Chinese trade vessels often went there.
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Translations
Zhangzhou — see Zhangzhou
References
- Zhangzhou, Wade-Giles romanization Chang-chou, in Encyclopædia Britannica
Further reading
- Chang-chou at OneLook Dictionary Search
- “Chang-chou”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
- “Chang-chou” in TheFreeDictionary.com, Huntingdon Valley, Pa.: Farlex, Inc., 2003–2023.