Dezhou

English

Alternative forms

• Te-chou (Wade–Giles)

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 德州 (Dézhōu).

Proper noun

Dezhou

1. A prefecture-level city in Shandong, China.
   • [1907, “American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions. A. B. C. F. M. (美國公理會), 1810.”, in D. MacGillivray, editor, A Century of Protestant Missions in China (1807-1907) Being the Centenary Conference Historical Volume‎^[1], Shanghai: American Presbyterian Mission Press, →OCLC, page 269:

     In the winter of 1866-7 Messrs. Stanley and Williams made a tour to Têchou, Shantung, about 160 miles to the south, and later Messrs. Stanley and Goodrich made the same trip.]

   • 2018 April 18, “Chinese driving school makes students put phones on line”, in France 24‎^[2], archived from the original on 18 April 2018‎^[3]:

     A driving teacher in China is using an unorthodox method to get his students to drive with more care. He calls it the “fatal blow” method. Basically, students have to manoeuvre the car with skill or risk crushing their smartphones... or those of their classmates.
     An amateur video documenting this unique technique was posted on April 10 on the Beijing Time YouTube channel. It was filmed at “Jade horse” driving school in Dezhou, a town located 300 kilometres south of Beijing in China’s Shandong province.

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

Translations

prefecture-level city

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 德州 (zh) (Dézhōu)

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (2008), “Dezhou”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[4], 2nd edition, volume 1, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1011, column 2