Zhoukou

Zhou·kou
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proper noun

A prefecture-level city of Henan, China.

Scrabble 23

Meanings

proper noun
  1. A prefecture-level city of Henan, China.

    Last November, the City of Zhoukou, Henan Province issued an administrative notice ordering families to demolish or move their ancestral tombs.

    2013 March 1, Hongyi Zhao, “Moving graves a headache for all”, in Beijing Today, →OCLC, page 3
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    Some 16,000,000 people live on the great plain of eastern Honan, an area of nearly 30,000,000 mou comprising Shangchiu and Choukou Prefectures and the eastern part of Kaifeng Prefecture.

    [1977, Summary of World Broadcasts: The Far East. Weekly Supplement, →OCLC, page 7

    In order to solve the problem in Fukou County, the Honan provincial and Choukou prefectural CCP committees in May this year sent a joint work group to the country.

    [1978 September 19 [1978 September 13], “The Importance of Reforming Leading Bodies as Seen From the Fukou Case”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China, volume I, number 182, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Peking NCNA Domestic Service and People's Daily frontpage, translation of original by Lin Hsi and Shih Te-lien (in Chinese), →ISSN, →OCLC, page H 5

    Preachers are coached on how to convey Communist Party core values in their sermons and national flags and songs have been injected into some church services, he said. Liu provided the AP with a notice sent to churches in Zhoukou, a city to the east of Nanyang in Henan province.

    2018 December 24, Erika Kinetz, Chen Si, “Santa gets pushed out as China’s leaders emphasize tradition”, in AP News, archived from the original on 24 Nov 2023

    As recently as last month, she had said, Chinese police called on her friends and colleagues in Zhoukou, the city in Henan province that was the site of much of her whistleblowing work, in an effort to pressure Dr. Wang to halt a play about her story on stage at the Hampstead Theatre in London.

    2019 September 25, Emily Langer, “Shuping Wang, whistleblower who exposed China’s HIV/AIDS crisis, dies at 59”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 26 Sep 2019, Obituaries

Origin

  1. Mandarin周口
  2. EnglishZhoukou

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 周口 (Zhōukǒu).

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Translations

Chinese Cantonese 周口
  • 周口 (zau¹ hau²)prefecture-level city
Chinese Mandarin 周口
  • 周口 (Zhōukǒu)prefecture-level city
Cite this entry
APA

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

MLA

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

Chicago

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