Meanings
- A county of Yulin, Shaanxi, China.
'In 1972 I was mainly taking disciples at Wubu county – that was because the Wubu Hall of Culture invited me to come to train members for their propaganda team.'
2016, Stephen Jones, Ritual and Music of North China: Volume 2: Shaanbei, →ISBN, →OCLC, page https://books.google.com/books?id=fKmoDQAAQBAJ&pg=PT972 more examples
According to an investigation made in Wubu County of Henan Province, the average per capita cash holdings of commune members in the countryside were 10.14 yuan at the end of 1978, 13.98 yuan at the end of 1979, and 20.59 yuan in 1980. In other words, over a 3-year period, the amount increased by over 100 percent.
楊承訓
1982 April 21 [1982 March 20], Yang Chengxun [2799 2110 6064] [楊承訓], “Role of the Rural Market in Promoting China's Modernization Program”, in China Report: Economic Affairs, number 222, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Beijing JINGJI YANJIU, No 3, pp 20-26, translation of original in Chinese, page 26The flux of a flood peak at the Wubu Hydrologic Station in Wubu county of Shaanxi's city of Yulin reached 10,600 cubic meters per second at 1 p.m. Friday, marking the highest level since 1989, the headquarters said.
2012 July 29, “40,800 relocated as flooding hits Yellow River”, in China Internet Information Center, archived from the original on 29 Jul 2012
Origin
- Mandarin吳堡 /吴堡
- EnglishWubu
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 吳堡 /吴堡 (Wúbǔ).
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Chinese Cantonese 吳堡 /吴堡
- 吳堡 /吴堡 (ng⁴ bou²)county
Chinese Mandarin 吳堡 /吴堡
- 吳堡 /吴堡 (Wúbǔ)county
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Wubu. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Wubu
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