Zibo

Zi·bo
Z10I1B3O1
/ˌ(d)zɪˈboʊ/

proper noun

A prefecture-level city in central Shandong, China.

UncommonScrabble 15

Meanings

proper noun

alternative Tzepo · alternative Tzu-po

  1. A prefecture-level city in central Shandong, China.
    2 more examples

    Industry in Tsinan is becoming highly developed. Indeed the day we set out to go west, factories on the outskirts were interspersed with fields of wheat, and everywhere on, into and through the Tzupo municipality, wheat fields were interspersed by factories. Tzupo with its five divisions which roughly correspond to five counties, has 2,000,000 people now, 550,000 of them mostly factory workers in the town portions, and the rest commune farmers who cultivate 93,330 hectares of land, all but 26,667 hectares of hills and downs irrigated.

    [1977 June, Rewi Alley, “Shantung Spring”, in Eastern Horizon, volume XVI, number 6, Hong Kong: Eastern Horizon Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 29, column 1

    The explosion on Saturday, which tore through a chemical plant in Zibo, in Shandong Province, killed one person and injured at least nine others, according to the official Xinhua news agency. A microblog post by the Zibo Public Security Bureau late Saturday said the fire had been “basically controlled” and that the injured had been taken to a hospital.

    2015 August 22, Dan Levin, “Blast at Chemical Site Jangles Frayed Nerves”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 24 Aug 2015, Asia Pacific

Origin

  1. Mandarin淄博
  2. EnglishZibo

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 淄博 (Zībó).

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Translations

Arabic زِيبُو
  • زِيبُو (zibū)a city of China
Chinese Cantonese 淄博
  • 淄博 (zi¹ bok³)a city of China
Chinese Mandarin 淄博
  • 淄博 (Zībó)a city of China
French Zibo
  • Ziboa city of China
Hungarian Cepo
  • Cepoa city of China
Japanese 淄博
  • 淄博 (Shihaku)a city of China
Korean 쯔보, 치박
  • 쯔보 (Jjeubo)a city of China
  • 치박 (Chibak)a city of China
Russian Цзыбо́
  • Цзыбо́ (Czybó)a city of China
Vietnamese Truy Bác
  • Truy Báca city of China
Cite this entry
APA

Zibo. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Zibo

MLA

“Zibo.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Zibo. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Zibo,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Zibo.

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