Hsü-chou

See also: Hsu-chou

English

Etymology

From Mandarin 徐州 (Xúzhōu), Wade–Giles romanization: Hsü²-chou¹.

Pronunciation

• enPR: shüʹjōʹ

Proper noun

Hsü-chou

1. Alternative form of Xuzhou
   • 1980, Kwang-chih Chang, “Shang Archaeology outside An-yang and Cheng-chou”, in Shang Civilization‎^[1], Yale University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, pages 311, 314:

     In the Huai River valley, which as we saw has yielded good evidence of Shang occupation in the Erh-li-kang phase, there have been a number of late Shang sites that have been reported on, but the only site of any notable scale is the residential-plus-burial site at Ch'iu-wan 丘灣, north of Hsü-chou in northwestern Kiangsu, discovered in 1959 and excavated in 1959, 1960, and 1965.

Translations

Xuzhou — see Xuzhou

Further reading

• “Hsü-chou”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.