Tokkuzak

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proper noun

A town in Shufu, Kashgar prefecture, Xinjiang autonomous region, China.

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Tuokezhake
Scrabble 29

Meanings

proper noun

alternative Toqquzaq

  1. A town in Shufu, Kashgar prefecture, Xinjiang autonomous region, China.

    In Tokkuzak town of Kashgar, over hundred students and teachers were arrested for performing collective prayer.

    2005 July 20, Rebiya Kadeer, “Letter from Rebiya Kadeer, Human Rights Activist, to the Congress of the United States”, in Falun Gong and China's Continuing War on Human Rights, →OCLC, page 3
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    Chinese President Xi Jinping (C) poses for a group photo with pupils and teachers of the central primary school in Tokkuzak Township, Shufu County, northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, April 28, 2014. Xi made an inspection tour in Xinjiang from April 27 to 30.

    2014 May 4, “President Xi Jinping makes inspection tour in Xinjiang (4)”, in People's Daily, archived from the original on 02 May 2021

    A teacher instructs a student in calligraphy at the central primary school in Tokkuzak Township, Shufu County, the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region.

    2017, Jia Zhao, Huang Xiaoxi, “Clapper talk, calligraphy changing Uygur life”, in Shanghai Daily, archived from the original on 07 Apr 2020

    The official could not say which of Gulnisa’s poems got her arrested, what crime Gulnisa had been charged with, or whether she had a trial. But he did confirm that she is serving her sentence in Mush Women’s prison in Tokkuzak (Toukezhake) township in Kashgar (Kashi) prefecture.

    2021 December 15, Shohret Hoshur, “Uyghur poet imprisoned on separatism charges in China’s Xinjiang”, in Roseanne Gerin, transl., Radio Free Asia, archived from the original on 15 Dec 2021

    Synonyms: Tuokezhake

Synonyms & antonyms

proper nounA town in Shufu, Kashgar prefecture, Xinjiang autonomous region, China.

Similar
Tuokezhake

Origin

  1. Uyghurتوققۇزاق
  2. EnglishTokkuzak

From Uyghur توققۇزاق (toqquzaq).

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Translations

Chinese Mandarin 托克扎克
  • 托克扎克 (Tuōkèzhākè)town
Cite this entry
APA

Tokkuzak. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Tokkuzak

MLA

“Tokkuzak.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Tokkuzak. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Tokkuzak,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Tokkuzak.

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