Leizhou

See also: Léizhōu

English

Alternative forms

• Lei-chou (Wade–Giles)

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 雷州 (Léizhōu).

Proper noun

Leizhou

1. A peninsula in Zhanjiang, Guangdong, China.
   • 1981 February 19 [1981 February 18], “China Offshore Oil Hint”, in The New York Times‎^[1], sourced from AP, Paris, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on May 24, 2015, Section D, page 8‎^[2]:

     Total China, a subsidiary of France's Compagnie Fran,caise des Petroles, said today that it had discovered significant hydrocarbon shows at the site of its first well off the China coast.
     The well is 12 miles west of China's Leizhou peninsula.

2. A county-level city in Zhanjiang, Guangdong, China.
   • 2010 May 12, Lucy Hornby, Huang Yan, “Factbox: Attacks on Chinese schools this year”, in Jeremy Laurence, editor, Reuters‎^[3], archived from the original on 15 May 2022, World News‎^[4]:

     APRIL 28, GUANGDONG PROVINCE
     Chen Kangbing, 33, broke into a primary school in Leizhou, Guangdong province, and stabbed 16 students and one teacher with a knife. He had been laid off as a teacher at a nearby school district.

Synonyms

• Luichow
• Luichew

Translations

county-level city in Guangdong, China

• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 雷州 (leoi⁴ zau¹)

  Hokkien: 雷州 (Lûi-chiu)

  Mandarin: 雷州 (zh) (Léizhōu)

Further reading

• Leon E. Seltzer, editor (1952), “Luichow Peninsula”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World‎^[5], Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 1095, column 1
• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Leizhou Peninsula”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[6], volume 2, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1712, column 3