Wuxue

Wu·xue
W4U1X8U1E1

proper noun

A county-level city of Huanggang, Hubei, China.

Scrabble 15

Meanings

proper noun

alternative Wusueh · alternative Wu-hsüeh · alternative Wu-hsueh · alternative Wuhsueh

  1. A county-level city of Huanggang, Hubei, China.

    In a scruffy apartment building down a muddy back alley in the provincial town of Wuxue in Hubei Province, one of China's newest industries is taking off.

    2006 October 13, Caroline Bailey, “China's full-time computer gamers”, in BBC News, archived from the original on 05 Feb 2007
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    Heading downriver on leaving Wuhan, the steamer passes through Huangshi in eastern Hubei Province. […]Near the border with Jiangxi on the north bank is the town of Wuxue, noted for the production of bamboo goods.

    1994 March, Michael Buckley, Alan Samagalski, Robert Storey, Chris Taylor, Clem Lindenmayer, “Hubei”, in China (Lonely Planet), 4th edition, Lonely Planet Publications, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 340

    Meicuan Reservoir, impounded in 1958, is located at Meicuan town, Wuxue City, Hubei Province. It lies north of the midstream section of the Yangtze River (115°30' E and 30°17' N).

    1998, Hong-Juan Wu, Yong-Tai Lin, Han-Yun Yang, Yue-Hua Wan, Qin Zhang, “Adapting Integrated Fish Farming Principles to Improve Fish Yields in Meicuan Reservoir, China”, in Jack A. Mathias, Anthony T. Charles, Hu Baotong, editors, Integrated Fish Farming: Proceedings of a Workshop on Integrated Fish Farming held in Wuxi, Jiangsu Province, People's Republic of China, October 11-15, 1994, CRC Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 309

    After graduating from Hubei University with a specialization in Chinese language and literature, Wu Dingfu, a native of Wuxue City, Hubei Province, worked as a teacher in Wuxue Middle School in Guangji County from 1969 to 1980.

    中国经济风云人物

    2009, Victoria Chu, “Wu, Dingfu (吴定福 b. 1946)”, in Wenxian Zhang, Ilan Alon, editors, Biographical Dictionary of New Chinese Entrepreneurs and Business Leaders [中国经济风云人物], Edward Elgar Publishing, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 195

    China’s agricultural ministry said on Tuesday it had confirmed an outbreak of African swine fever in central Hubei province. The disease was found to have killed six of a combined 147 pigs on two neighboring farms in Wuxue city, the ministry said.

    2018 November 12, Dominique Patton, “China confirms African swine fever outbreak in Hubei province”, in Kenneth Maxwell, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 13 Nov 2018, Health News

Origin

  1. Mandarin武穴
  2. EnglishWuxue

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 武穴 (Wǔxué).

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Translations

Chinese Cantonese 武穴
  • 武穴 (mou⁵ jyut⁶)county-level city in Hubei
Chinese Mandarin 武穴
  • 武穴 (Wǔxué)county-level city in Hubei
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