Kawak

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Uyghur كاۋاك (kawak).

Proper noun

Kawak

1. A township in Karakax, Hotan prefecture, Xinjiang, China.
   • 2020 February, Adrian Zenz, “The Karakax List: Dissecting the Anatomy of Beijing’s Internment Drive in Xinjiang”, in Journal of Political Risk‎^[1], volume 8, number 2, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on February 17, 2020:

     Finally, a spreadsheet from Kawak (喀瓦克) Township in the northern part of Karakax County that lists 1,249 persons in detention and re-education shows that 93.2 percent of persons who are classified as “untrustworthy” are either in detention or re-education.

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

Synonyms

• (from Mandarin Chinese) Kawake

Translations

township in Karakax, Hotan, Xinjiang, China

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 喀瓦克 (Kāwǎkè)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can
• Uyghur: كاۋاك (kawak)

Anagrams

• Kakwa