Ruzhou

Ru·zhou
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proper noun

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

Scrabble 18

Meanings

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

    The Ju Yao of the Sung dynasty was made at Ju-chou, the modern Ju-chou-fu, in the province of Honan.

    [1908, Yuan-p'ien Hsiang, translated by Stephen W. Bushell, Chinese Porcelain: Sixteenth-Century Coloured Illustrations with Chinese ms. Text, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 12
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    Ju-yao or Juchou porcelain.—Chinese authors state that the porcelain manufactured at Tingchou (see p. 402), being unfit for presentation to the emperor, the establishment of a factory for the manufacture of more suitable articles was ordered at Juchou, in Honan province.

    [1890, Alfred E. Hippisley, A Catalogue of the Hippisley Collection of Chinese Porcelains, with a Sketch of the History of Ceramic Art in China., Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, →OCLC, page 399

    Ruzhou, a town surrounded by coal mines in Henan Province, borrowed and spent in line with China’s government-driven fads, which helped guarantee that Beijing would pay for much of it.

    2019 November 10, Alexandra Stevenson, Cao Li, “How Bad Is China’s Debt? A City Hospital Is Asking Nurses for Loans”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 10 Nov 2019

    In Ruzhou, a city southwest of Zhengzhou, streets have been turned into torrents, sweeping away cars and other vehicles, footage on social media showed.

    2021 July 20, Ryan Woo, “Dozen central Chinese cities under water as river banks burst”, in Nick Macfie, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 20 Jul 2021, Environment

Origin

  1. Mandarin汝州
  2. EnglishRuzhou

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 汝州 (Rǔzhōu).

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Translations

Chinese Cantonese 汝州
  • 汝州 (jyu⁵ zau¹)county-level city
Chinese Mandarin 汝州
  • 汝州 (Rǔzhōu)county-level city
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Chicago

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