Meanings
- A Tibetan autonomous prefecture in Qinghai, China.
Going among the masses, members of the meteorological station of Nangchien County in Yushu Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, gathered 150 folk proverbs on weather changes and edited a meteorological chart of different seasons for agriculture and animal husbandry.
1975 April 4 [1975 April 4], “Tsinghai Province Makes Advances in Meteorological Work”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China, volume I, number 66, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Peking NCNA, →ISSN, →OCLC, People's Republic of China: Northwest Region, page M 51 more example
Tenzin Sherab (pictured) was the oldest of five siblings from a village in Chumarleb (Chinese: Qumarleb/Qumalai), Yushu (Kyegu) Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture (the Tibetan area of Kham). According to exile Tibetan sources, his nomad family had been resettled to Chumarleb under the Chinese authorities’ policies of settlement, land confiscation, and fencing of pastoral areas inhabited by Tibetans, dramatically curtailing their livelihoods.
2013 May 29, “Tibetan nomad self-immolates and dies in Yushu”, in International Campaign for Tibet, archived from the original on 02 Oct 2013
Origin
Translations
Chinese Cantonese 玉樹 /玉树
- 玉樹 /玉树 (juk⁶ syu⁶)Tibetan autonomous prefecture
Chinese Mandarin 玉樹 /玉树
- 玉樹 /玉树 (Yùshù)Tibetan autonomous prefecture
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Yushu. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Yushu
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