Chao-t'ung

English

Etymology

From Mandarin 昭通 (Zhāotōng) Wade–Giles romanization: Chao¹-tʻung¹.

Proper noun

Chao-t'ung

1. Alternative form of Zhaotong
   • 1897, Alexander Hosie, “Preface to the Second Edition”, in Three Years in Western China‎^[1], 2nd edition, London: George Philip & Son, →OCLC, →OL, page xvii:

     Although Kuei-chow drew seven piculs of prepared tobacco, and Chao-t’ung, the northern prefecture of Yün-nan, took four pieces of T cloths and 14½ piculs of tobacco from Mêng-tzŭ, I see no reason to alter what I wrote eight years ago in the concluding paragraph of Chapter XII.

   • 1943, L. Carrington Goodrich, A Short History of the Chinese People‎^[2], Harper & Brothers, →OCLC, →OL, page 60:

     There are also indications that Buddhism appeared in south China; a stone sculpture thought to have served as a pedestal for Buddhist figures and bearing a date equivalent to A.D. 83 was discovered at Chao-t’ung in Yunnan in 1937.

   • 1988, Jean-Paul Wiest, Maryknoll in China: A History, 1918-1955‎^[3], M. E. Sharpe, Inc., →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 367:

     Farther north, Sister Moira Riehl headed a group of four Sisters who worked in the Catholic hospital of Chao-t'ung run by the Yugoslavian School Sisters of St. Francis.

Translations

Zhaotong — see Zhaotong

Further reading

• Leon E. Seltzer, editor (1952), “Chaotung or Chao-t’ung”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World‎^[4], Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 371, column 3
• Chaotung, Chao-t'ung, Chao-tung at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.

Anagrams

• Ou-tchang, caught on