Meanings
- alternativeAlternative form of Zigui.
Tzekwei (秭歸) and Patung (巴東) produce about ten thousand tons.
1928, Chinese Economic Journal, volume 2, Bureau of Foreign Trade, Ministry of Industry, →OCLC, page 562 more examples
The same formation is shown farther east on the Yangtze at Tzekwei district (=Kweichow Fu) in western Hupeh and on the Taning-ho where it was named the Kweichow formation by Willis and Blackwelder.
1945, Journal of Paleontology, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 56During a vacation in 1923, Li and his assistant, Zhao Yazeng (Y. T. Chao), investigated the geology of the Yangtze Valley from Ichang to Tzekwei, which subsequent geologists have classified as belonging to the Paleozoic stratigraphy of central China.
1990, Frederic L. Holmes, “Li Siguang”, in Dictionary of Scientific Biography, volume 18, Charles Scribner's Sons, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 553
Origin
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