Meanings
- alternativeAlternative form of Zhumadian.
And what, meanwhile, of General Feng and his army? They were ordered to go to Chu-ma-tien in Honan.
1921, E. G. Kemp, Chinese Mettle, Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC, →OL, page 1712 more examples
And he did even better than his word, wiring ahead to the nights' stopping-places, Chu-ma-tien and Chang-te-ho, and when the train pulled in at each place, I was charmingly welcomed by the division superintendent with an invitation from his wife to put up with them;[...]
1913, Elizabeth Kendall, A Wayfarer in China: Impressions of a Trip Across West China and Mongolia, Houghton Mifflin Company, →OCLC, page 224The Jubilee Mass had a special solemnity due to the presence of two exiled Chinese bishops—Thomas Cardinal Tien, Archbishop of Peking, and Bishop Joseph Yuen, of Chu-ma-tien, Honan—as well as the recently named bishop of Taichung, Formosa, Most Rev. William Kupfer, MM, who was in the United States to attend the Maryknoll General Chapter.
2013, Maureen Abbott, New Lights from Old Truths: Living the Signs of the Times, volume IV, Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, Indiana, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 375
Origin
- Mandarin駐馬店 /驻马店
- EnglishChu-ma-tien
From Mandarin 駐馬店 /驻马店 (Zhùmǎdiàn) Wade–Giles romanization: Chu⁴-ma³-tien⁴.
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