Chou-chih

A form of Zhouzhi — A county of Xi'an, Shaanxi, China.

OriginMandarin 盩厔 →
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Meanings

proper noun
  1. alternativeAlternative form of Zhouzhi.

    Li Yung was a native of Chou-chih County in Shensi.

    1962, Ping-ti Ho, The Ladder of Success in Imperial China Aspects of Social Mobility, 1368-1911, John Wiley & Sons, Inc, published 1964, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 280
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    He was fatally wounded on 30 March 1864 during the siege of Chou-chih, Shensi, which had been occupied by the rebel leader Lan Ta-shun 藍大順.

    1963, RBS, volume 3, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 145

    They defeated the Wei-pei Troop Commissioner Lü Jih-kuang 呂日光 in Chou-chih County 盩厔縣 on 4/10/763 and again 20 kilometers further east in Chung-nan County[...]

    1982, Terrence Douglas O'Byrne, Civil-Military Relations During the Middle T'ang: The Career of Kuo Tzu-I, Urbana, Ill., →OCLC, page 162

Origin

  1. Mandarin盩厔
  2. EnglishChou-chih

From Chou¹-chih⁴, the Wade–Giles romanization of the Mandarin 盩厔 (Zhōuzhì).

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