Dazhou

See also: dàzhōu

English

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 達州／达州 (Dázhōu).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /(ˈ)dɑ(ˈ)d͡ʒoʊ/

Proper noun

Dazhou

1. A prefecture-level city in Sichuan, China.
   • 2001, 邓天梅 [Deng Tianmei], 四川 [Sìchuān, Sichuan] (中国西部开发丛书 [Introduction to West China Series])‎^[1], Beijing: China Intercontinental Press (五洲传播出版社), →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 132:

     In the direction of Shaanxi, a high-grade road will be built between Sichuan's Dazhou City and Wanyuan City (close to Shaanxi).

   • 2010, Pamela Kyle Crossley, The Wobbling Pivot, China Since 1800: An Interpretive History‎^[2], Wiley-Blackwell, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 4:

     Dazhou, Sichuan, has for years been showing the stress of popular anger against its mining industries, prostitu- tion rings, drug problems and a poorly managed outbreak of avian flu.

   • 2013 September 15, “China road accident kills 16 including 11 students”, in AP News‎^[3], archived from the original on 09 June 2022:

     A passenger bus collided with a truck and plunged into a riverbed in southwest China, killing 16 people including 11 students, authorities said.
     The accident happened on Sunday afternoon in a village in Dazhou city in Sichuan province.

   • 2020 March 27, Dan Bilefsky, Ceylan Yeginsu, “Of ‘Covidivorces’ and ‘Coronababies’: Life During a Lockdown”, in The New York Times‎^[4], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on March 27, 2020, Protests in China‎^[5]:

     Dazhou, a city in southwestern Sichuan Province, received close to 100 filings for divorce in less than three weeks, an official who handled divorce filings said in a video interview, adding that there was a large backlog of cases.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Dazhou.

Translations

prefecture-level city in China

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 達州／达州 (zh) (Dázhōu)