Jiaozuo

Jiao·zuo
J8I1A1O1Z10U1O1

proper noun

A prefecture-level city of Henan, China.

Scrabble 23

Meanings

proper noun

alternative Chiao-tso

  1. A prefecture-level city of Henan, China.

    Participants perform Tai Chi at a square in Jiefang District during a worldwide Tai Chi activity on October 18, 2015, in Jiaozuo, Henan Province.

    2016 March 31, Alan Taylor, “More of the Chinese Art of the Crowd”, in The Atlantic, archived from the original on 05 Apr 2016
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    Work on the new railroad that thrust its way up onto the Shangtang: Plateau from the old railhead at the huge coalmine of Chiaotso in the Yellow River Valley went on for three years.

    [1983, William Hinton, “Two Dams and a Railroad”, in Shenfan, New York: Vintage Books, published 1984, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 226

    Luttrell gave up missionary work in 1924 to become a welfare officer with the Peking Syndicate’s coal mine at Chiaotso in North Honan.⁴ As a missionary, Luttrell had been stattoned at Chiaotso and got to know the British managers and engineers who were in charge of operations there.

    [1987, Peter Stursberg, “Dragon Bones”, in The Golden Hope: Christians in China, Toronto: The United Church Publishing House, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 134

    “I don’t regret what happened. We heard that after we were arrested they improved conditions,” Mr. He, 32, said by telephone from his home in Qinyang city near Jiaozuo, in Henan Province, where he returned to his wife and 5-year-old daughter after receiving a seven week jail term in Singapore.

    2013 April 1, Didi Kirsten Tatlow, “Back in China, Bus Driver Doesn’t Regret Singapore Strike”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 19 Aug 2023

Origin

  1. Mandarin焦作
  2. EnglishJiaozuo

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 焦作 (Jiāozuò).

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Translations

Chinese Cantonese 焦作
  • 焦作 (ziu¹ zok³)city in Henan
Chinese Mandarin 焦作
  • 焦作 (Jiāozuò)city in Henan
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APA

Jiaozuo. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Jiaozuo

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