Meanings
- A county of Xinzhou, Shanxi, China.
In Wuzhai, a county in north-west Shanxi, they found the Communist prefectural government, and after two weeks’ rest in an army service station my mother was assigned to the town of Wuzhai, with responsibility for training local Party officials.
2000, Aiping Mu, “The East is Red: Hard Times for New Arrivals (1946-1951)”, in Vermilion Gate, Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 172 more examples
This specimen (No. 2040) bears a notation to the effect that the actual collection was made by a Chinese railroad inspector, Tchuang Kieh. in September 1922 at Wu Chai Hsien, Shansi Province, China, at an elevation of 6,000 to 9,000 feet. The specimen was identified as a form of Lespedeza bicolor in 1926 by A. K. Schindler.
[1952 March, Franklin J. Crider, Natob—A New Bush Lespedeza For Soil Conservation, number 900, Washington, D.C.: United States Department of Agriculture, →OCLC, page 2On leaving Shenchi, the way lay up a wide valley, on a good road. Then we took to the hills in Wuzhai (Wuchai) county, winding amongst mountain ridges, until we came to Hequ (Hochu) county, where there were more mountains, wild serrated loess country, but everywhere trees and then more trees.
1979 January, Rewi Alley, “Yanbei and Xinxian Prefectures in 1978”, in Eastern Horizon, volume XVIII, number 1, Hong Kong: Eastern Horizon Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 11, column 1
Origin
- Mandarin五寨
- EnglishWuzhai
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 五寨 (Wǔzhài).
More words from Mandarin
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Chinese Cantonese 五寨
- 五寨 (ng⁵ zaai⁶)county
Chinese Mandarin 五寨
- 五寨 (Wǔzhài)county
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