Jiuzhaigou

See also: Jiǔzhàigōu

English

Alternative forms

• Chiu-chai-kou (Wade–Giles)

Etymology

Borrowed from the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 九寨溝／九寨沟 (Jiǔzhàigōu).

Proper noun

Jiuzhaigou

1. A nature reserve and national park located in Ngawa prefecture in the north of Sichuan Province in southwestern China.
   • 1985, George B. Schaller, Hu Jinchu, Pan Wenshi, Zhu Jing, The Giant Pandas of Wolong‎^[1], University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 61:

     Certainly Fargesia sp. is an adequate food source, pandas in the Jiuzhaigou reserve and some other areas subsisting entirely on it.

2. A county of Ngawa prefecture, Sichuan, China.
   • 2004, Intercontinental's Best of China‎^[2], →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 420:

     Taxi - Taking a taxi from Jiuzhaigou County to the scenic area is about RMB 10.

   • 2014 June 13, Edward Wong, “In China, Negotiating Peaks and Police”, in The New York Times‎^[3], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 14 June 2014, Travel‎^[4]:

     From January 2013 to October 2013, Songpan County, which includes the Huanglong preserve, had 3.22 million visitors, […] Jiuzhaigou County had 4.76 million visitors last year.

   • 2017 August 8, Ben Blanchard, Nick Macfie, “Four dead as quake strikes in remote part of China's Sichuan province”, in Andrew Bolton, editor, Reuters‎^[5], archived from the original on 11 August 2017, Environment‎^[6]:

     Fallen trees are seen blocking a road after an earthquake in Jiuzhaigou county, Ngawa prefecture, Sichuan province, China August 8, 2017.

Translations

nature reserve in Sichuan, China

• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 九寨溝 / 九寨沟 (gau² zaai⁶ kau¹)

  Mandarin: 九寨溝 / 九寨沟 (zh) (Jiǔzhàigōu)

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Jiuzhaigou Valley”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[7], volume 2, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1452, column 3