Mengzhou

Meng·zhou
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/ˌmʌŋˈd͡ʒoʊ/

proper noun

A county-level city of Jiaozuo, Henan, China.

Scrabble 23

Meanings

proper noun
  1. A county-level city of Jiaozuo, Henan, China.

    The government of Mengzhou, which oversees Sangpo, declined to comment when reached by phone. But Mengzhou’s mayor said last year that the crackdown was necessary and in accordance with the popular will, according to a statement on the Mengzhou government website.

    2019 May 23, David Stanway, Philip Wen, Stella Qiu, “A pollution crackdown compounds slowdown woes in China's heartland”, in Reuters, archived from the original on 02 Sep 2023
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    Jiaozuo, for instance, brought forth the proposal "to inaugurate and promote educational modernization across the board," and in the counties with which it is affiliated—such as Mengzhou and Qinyang, the "Three New Classrooms"—in micro-mechanics, electronic teaching and phonetics—are rapidly moving ahead, keeping abreast of the "Three Old Classrooms" of the library, the[...]

    1998, Chinese Education and Society, volume 31, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 36

    In the period around 1925, the Wen County police department found itself unable to meet the threat posed by large gangs of armed bandits (insurrectionists, really) operating in Henan Province. One such gang, the Red Spear Society, was already in control of neighboring Bo'ai County 博愛縣 and Mengzhou City 孟洲市^([sic – meaning 孟州市]) (Jiaozuo 焦作, Henan).

    2019, Mark Chen, Chen Style Taijiquan Collected Masterworks: The History of a Martial Art, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page https://books.google.com/books?id=C8N_DwAAQBAJ&pg=PP10

Origin

  1. Mandarin孟州
  2. EnglishMengzhou

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 孟州 (Mèngzhōu).

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Translations

Chinese Mandarin 孟州
  • 孟州 (Mèngzhōu)county-level city
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APA

Mengzhou. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Mengzhou

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“Mengzhou.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Mengzhou. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

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