Meanings
- alternativeAlternative form of Kuche (Kuqa)
Chiu-tzu 龜茲 is now the city of K’u-ch’e, situated at the confluence of the Muzart River and the K’u-ch’e River at the foot of the Tien Shan.
1972, T'ung-tsu Ch'ü, Han Dynasty China, volume I, University of Washington Press, →ISBN, page 3782 more examples
A so-called "Ferghana Series" of oil-bearing strata runs into Kashgaria from Russian Turkestan and extends along the foot of the T'ien Shan past Aqsu to Kucha (K'u-ch'e). What may be an extension of this same series reappears again in the region of the Sinkiang North Road.
1944, Martin R. Norins, Gateway to Asia: Sinkiang, Frontier of the Chinese Far West, John Day Company, →OCLC, page 112Responsibility for this control was in the hands of the Hsi-an Military Governor situated at what was called Chiu-tzu, the present-day K'u-ch'e (Kucha) in the southern piedmont of the T'ien Shan southwest of Urumchi.
1974, Herold J. Wiens, “Developing the interior: the growth of Urumchi”, in D. J. Dwyer, editor, China Now, DLongman Group Ltd, sourced from The historical and geographical role of Urumchi, capital of Chinese Central Asia', Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 52, 1963, 441-64, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 274
Synonyms & antonyms
Origin
- Mandarin庫車 /库车
- EnglishK'u-ch'e
From Mandarin 庫車 /库车 (Kùchē), Wade–Giles romanization: Kʻu⁴-chʻe¹.
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