Meanings
- A township in Kashgar, Kashgar prefecture, Xinjiang autonomous region, China.
T. Where is he? S. He is in the Qoghan quarter, he will be here directly.
1934, Rachel Orde Wingate, Dialogues in the Eastern Turki Dialect on Subjects of Interest to Travellers, →OCLC, page 133 more examples
The general pattern is that the closer a township is to Kashgar city, the lower the changes of finding a female donkey in a household. Qoghan, Bäshkeräm, Awat, Yengi-östeng and Döwletbagh are townships which are within a 50-km distance from the city, and where female donkeys are nearly absent.
2010, Donald Wood, editor, Economic Action in Theory and Practice: Anthropological Investigations, via Google Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 172Mahat Hasan was one of 50 men detained by Chinese authorities in Barin town’s Qoghan village.[...]Mahat Hassan died last month in prison, becoming the fifth Uyghur of the Qoghan villagers to perish while serving a life sentence, according to his wife Asim Khan.
2012 March 22, Mamatjan Juma, Joshua Lipes, “Supporting a Loved One in Jail”, in Mamatjan Juma, transl., Radio Free Asia, archived from the original on 24 Mar 2012“This is a really religious family,” Sawut said. “We had been watching them closely, which is why they moved to Qoghan, outside Kashgar city, though some of them remained behind.”
2015 June 29, Shohret Hoshur, Richard Finney, “Uyghur Attackers Came From 'Religious Family'”, in Mamatjan Juma, transl., Radio Free Asia, archived from the original on 19 Sep 2015Synonyms: Haohan
Synonyms & antonyms
proper nounA township in Kashgar, Kashgar prefecture, Xinjiang autonomous region, China.
Origin
- Uyghurقوغان
- EnglishQoghan
Borrowed from Uyghur قوغان (qoghan).
More words from Uyghur
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Chinese Mandarin 浩罕
- 浩罕 (Hàohǎn)township
Cite this entry
Qoghan. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Qoghan
“Qoghan.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Qoghan. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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