Meanings
Muji1
- A town in Pishan, Hotan prefecture, Xinjiang autonomous region, China.
A teacher in Muji Township in Guma backed up the police officer.
2016 November 22, Eset Sulaiman, Brooks Boliek., “In China’s Xinjiang, Some Uyghurs are Forced Into a Sharecropper’s Life”, in Eset Sulaiman, Mamatjan Juma, transl., Radio Free Asia, archived from the original on 23 Nov 2016 - A township in Akto, Kizilsu, Xinjiang autonomous region, China.
The corridor north-west to Muji and south to the Pakistan border is a pamir valley, the Sarykol Valley.
1998, John S. King, Bradley Mayhew, Karakoram Highway (Lonely Planet), 3rd edition, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 1262 more examples
A damaged house is seen in Muji village, Akto County of northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, Nov. 26, 2016. About 130 herdsmen from Akto County, hit by a 6.7-magnitude earthquake Friday night, have been evacuated to a safer place, said local sources on Saturday.[...] As of 6:50 am, another 100 tents, 300 quilts, 300 coats, 200 bags of flour, 200 tonnes of coal, small generators and flashlights reached Muji, where a villager was killed by a collapsed house.
2016 November 27, “Rescue work goes smoothly in quake-hit Xinjiang county”, in Yao Lan, editor, China News Service, archived from the original on 31 Jan 2020Authorities are promoting the letter mainly in villages in border areas, such as Muji and Bulungkol in Akto (in Chinese, Aketao) county, he said.
2017 April 12, Eset Sulaiman, Roseanne Gerin, “Authorities Urge Kyrgyz Herdsmen to Spy on Uyghurs in China’s Xinjiang”, in Mamatjan Juma, transl., Radio Free Asia, archived from the original on 17 Apr 2017
Muji2
- alternativeAlternative form of Moji (“language”).
Synonyms & antonyms
from Mandarin Chinese
Origin
- Uyghurمۇجى
- EnglishMuji
Borrowed from Uyghur مۇجى (muji).
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Chinese Mandarin 木吉
- 木吉 (Mùjí)town, township, village
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Muji. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Muji
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