Wuhsueh

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A form of Wuxue — A county-level city of Huanggang, Hubei, China.

Scrabble 16

Meanings

proper noun
  1. alternativeAlternative form of Wuxue.

    Tao-hsin’s hometown was the Yangtze port of Wuhsueh, twenty-five miles southwest of Huangmei.

    2009, Bill Porter, “No Work, No Food”, in Zen Baggage: A Pilgrimage to China, Counterpoint Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 190
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    On May 14 the Fourth Field Army led by Lin Piao, Lo Jung-huan and other comrades forced the Yangtse on a front of more than one hundred kilometres in the Tuanfeng-Wuhsueh sector east of Wuhan.

    1961, Selected Works of Mao Tse-tung, volume IV, Foreign Languages Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 388

    Jul. 1[…]Chinese planes attack Japanese ships and soldiers near Matang. Japanese planes raid Hukow and Wuhsueh. the next cities up the Yangtze. They also bomb Swatow, killing an estimated 300, including 200 schoolchildren.

    2007, Rodney P. Carlisle, editor, Day by Day: The Thirties, volume 2, Facts on File, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 862

Origin

  1. Mandarin武穴
  2. EnglishWuhsueh

From Mandarin 武穴 (Wǔxué), Wade–Giles romanization: Wu-hsüeh.

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APA

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

MLA

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

Chicago

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