Jiaozuo

See also: jiàozuò and Jiāozuò

English

Alternative forms

• Chiao-tso (Wade–Giles)

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 焦作 (Jiāozuò).

Proper noun

Jiaozuo

1. A prefecture-level city in Henan, China.
   • [1983, William Hinton, “Two Dams and a Railroad”, in Shenfan‎^[1], New York: Vintage Books, published 1984, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 226:

     Work on the new railroad that thrust its way up onto the Shangtang: Plateau from the old railhead at the huge coalmine of Chiaotso in the Yellow River Valley went on for three years.]

   • [1987, Peter Stursberg, “Dragon Bones”, in The Golden Hope: Christians in China‎^[2], Toronto: The United Church Publishing House, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 134:

     Luttrell gave up missionary work in 1924 to become a welfare officer with the Peking Syndicate’s coal mine at Chiaotso in North Honan.⁴
     As a missionary, Luttrell had been stattoned at Chiaotso and got to know the British managers and engineers who were in charge of operations there.]

   • 2013 April 1, Didi Kirsten Tatlow, “Back in China, Bus Driver Doesn’t Regret Singapore Strike”, in The New York Times‎^[3], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on August 19, 2023‎^[4]:

     “I don’t regret what happened. We heard that after we were arrested they improved conditions,” Mr. He, 32, said by telephone from his home in Qinyang city near Jiaozuo, in Henan Province, where he returned to his wife and 5-year-old daughter after receiving a seven week jail term in Singapore.

   • 2016 March 31, Alan Taylor, “More of the Chinese Art of the Crowd”, in The Atlantic‎^[5], archived from the original on 05 April 2016‎^[6]:

     Participants perform Tai Chi at a square in Jiefang District during a worldwide Tai Chi activity on October 18, 2015, in Jiaozuo, Henan Province.

Translations

city in Henan

• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 焦作 (ziu¹ zok³)

  Mandarin: 焦作 (zh) (Jiāozuò)

• Manchu: ᡤᡳᠶᠣᠣ
  ᡯᠣ (giyoo dzo)

Further reading

• Jiaozuo, Chiaotso, Chiao-tso at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.
• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Jiaozuo”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[7], volume 2, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1447, column 2